Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising rabbits for profit

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

Pruning Blueberries

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Sweet Potato Greens

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

The barnyard scramble

Fly it proudly and properly

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Cajun-baked turnip

Nanny B’s benne bake

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Coconut Rice Pudding

Self-reliance

Saving money on the homestead

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

Survival infection control

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

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

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...