Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Build a poultry killing cone

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

By Rick Brannan Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 There are few things more frustrating and dangerous than working with a dull knife. In my quest for...

How to maintain a dirt road

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Small engine maintenance for women

Build a Composter

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Fly it proudly and properly

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Tortellini Soup

Fried Foods

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Black Bean and Avocado Dip

Self-reliance

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Cash in on your household junk

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Our journey to modern off-grid living

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

Solar hot water systems

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...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Building the coyote rifle

Catch your own bait

Air power superiority

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...