Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Beekeeping basics

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising your own beef

Redworm farming

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Building your chicken coop

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Growing and Using Peppers

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Remembering what grandma used

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

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

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Chilies rellenos

Blueberry wine jam

General Tso’s Chicken

Middle Eastern breads

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Teach your kids math with the banking game

No dentist? Oh, no!

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Keep the Ice On

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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...