Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Animal disease traceability

Beekeeping basics

Building

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

By James Ballou Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 A certain degree of self reliance is obtainable by those who have the knowledge and skills, resourcefulness, courage,...

Build a ski sled

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Currants and Gooseberries

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The greatest American who was never President

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Chicken Curry

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Lenie in the kitchen: Hamburger and potato casserole

The convenience of a bread bucket

Self-reliance

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Disaster preparation!

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Breastfeeding — A primer

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Battery powered weekend retreat

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Picking a holster

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Affordable firearms

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...