Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

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

Raising cattle on your own place

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Farm and Garden

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Tea for the garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The barnyard scramble

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Peloponnesian Pot Roast

Homemade pizza

Veal Goulash

Chilies rellenos

Self-reliance

Preparing for civil unrest

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

The fire wick fire starter

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Use the right ammunition!

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Of guns and snakes

Building the coyote rifle

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...