Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Slaughtering and Butchering

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a compost tumbler

Make adobe bricks

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Farm and Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Tea for the garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

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 time-travel ad

The barnyard scramble

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Fermented dill pickles

How to use those leftovers

Elegant desserts for entertaining

Self-reliance

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Essential oils

Food security 101: part 2

A guide to buying silver and gold

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Solar-powered refrigerators

Homemade electric power

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Affordable firearms

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...