Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Redworm farming

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Never underestimate a woman

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Growing Productive Strawberries

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Catfish Biscuits

Remembering what grandma used

The vanishing outhouse

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Skillet Spanish rice

Making apple pectin

Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Self-reliance

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Bartering for bad times

Foraging for wild berries

Garden injuries

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Making and using a solar cooker

Energy class: Part 3

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Sight and sound enhancement

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...