Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Beekeeping basics

Raising your own beef

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Building and using wattle fences

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Farm and Garden

Sweet Potato Greens

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

A few favorite recipes and books

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Galumbki

Preserving plums

Self-reliance

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

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

Garden injuries Part 2

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Power your bug-out bag

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...