Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Once a day milking

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Farm and Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers...

Slug Zapper

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Victory Gardens

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Tetsukabuto squash pie

Easy homemade dairy products

Making apple pectin

Potato Latkes

Self-reliance

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

How we found our remote backwoods home

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Moderate power firearms

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Firearms and cold weather considerations

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...