Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef

Finding the best dog for the country life

Build a poultry killing cone

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build a wood crib with free materials

How to Install a Steel Roof

Farm and Garden

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

By Joe Mooney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 I've always found the use of seasonal rains by native peoples very fascinating. From the diversion of floodwaters...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

The greatest American who was never President

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Pasteurizing milk

Blanching vegetables

Kids in the Kitchen

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Power Up

Simplifying simplicity

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Dim bulbs in California

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...