Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Building a $3,000 Barn

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Apple barbeque sauce

Home canning safety tips

Salmon loaf

Pasteurizing milk

Self-reliance

Brood X

Small camp security

The art of living in small spaces

Disaster preparation!

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Just because

Picking a holster

Women and guns

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...