Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Bovine basics for beginners

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Make adobe bricks

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Last winter I got a phone call from an old friend in Arizona. One of his sons...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Rural Building

Build a Groundhog Snare

The Forever Floor

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Home-Grown Eggs

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

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...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The greatest American who was never President

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Gather rose hips for health

The wonderful world of lavender

Cast iron loaf pans from breakfast to dessert

German green beans

Self-reliance

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Life-saving snowshoes

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Energy

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Job site solar power

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

The many benefits of garlic

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Politics and Commentary

Our ‘unenumerated’ rights

Do we need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights?

Gulf War II opened the eyes of Americans to the UN and the media

A Republic vs. A Democracy