Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Claw Hammers

By R.E. Rawlinson Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle observed that “Man is a tool using animal … without tools he is nothing, with tools...

Never underestimate a woman

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Build Your Own Hoop House

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Farm and Garden

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw...

Growing Strawberries

The Homestead Greenhouse

Gardening for Treasure

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The greatest American who was never President

The time-travel ad

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Louisiana gumbo

Black Beans & Rice

Self-reliance

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Dealing with heat stress

Buying the right emergency radio

Shopping to beat inflation

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Build Your Own Car Wash

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Build your own battery charging station

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Tailoring guns to females

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...