Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Bovine basics for beginners

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

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...

Build a Composter

Build a graceful footbridge

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 Carrots are an old-time homesteader favorite. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated, or simply stored in a cool...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Build a Keyhole Garden

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

The time-travel ad

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Just for Kids: Some pioneer recipes

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Self-reliance

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Building and stocking your pantry

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Small camp security

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Solar power trailer Part 2

Solar Building Design

Waterpower for personal use

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Big boomer guns

How big a gun do you need?

Moderate power firearms

An economical battery of guns for the 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...