Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Animal disease traceability

Once a day milking

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Building and stocking your pantry

By Jackie Clay Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 At the turn of the 19th century, most country homes had a walk-in pantry, as well as a...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a log crib

A house a tornado helped build

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Catfish Biscuits

Grandpa’s justice

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Twice Cooked Pork

Challah

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Making dandelions palatable

Self-reliance

Call me plumber

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Saving money on the homestead

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...