Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Finding the best dog for the country life

Once a day milking

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Shelves and benches

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Claw Hammers

Farm and Garden

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Grandpa’s justice

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Raspberry chocolate torte

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Apple ham salad

Egg thingies

Self-reliance

Flea market stories and strategies

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

The Trigger Line

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Picking a holster

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...