Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Is that a good pig?

Building

Build a Trail

By Claire Wolfe Standing near the top of the trail, looking down. The bright sunny spot in the middle distance will...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Building your chicken coop

Build a log crib

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Blueberry Cash Crop

Mid-season planting

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

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

Food and recipes

Colorado Cowboy Cookies

Baked Spaghetti

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Self-reliance

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Making apple pectin

Clean up your act!

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Millenium Vehicles

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Big boomer guns

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...