Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Bottle-raise a calf

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Brooder in a box

Building

Our Unconventional House

By Judy Zent Website Exclusive • December, 2002 Fig. 1 - Tire walls with roof framing. Need a prolonged workout? Want to do some major recycling? Want...

Gabion walls for form and function

Build your own log home in the woods

How to Install a Steel Roof

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Growing and Using Peppers

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Fried chicken for breakfast

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Fiery Frittata

Old World apple chutney

Corned Beef Cakes

Veal Goulash

Self-reliance

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Wash day

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

Build Your Own Car Wash

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...