Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Home Dairying

Building

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

Building and stocking your pantry

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Three Raised Bed Designs

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Pruning Blueberries

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

The $1 Garden

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

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

Food and recipes

Blueberry Vareniki

Pasteurizing milk

Hawaiian poha jam

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Self-reliance

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Bugging out in place

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

The wonderful world of axes

Energy

Solar suitcase

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Waterpower for personal use

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Catch your own bait

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...