Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Beekeeping basics

Slaughtering and Butchering

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

A river rock shower

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Farm and Garden

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between...

Slug Zapper

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Bread pudding

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Brew your own root beer

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

Self-reliance

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Life-saving snowshoes

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Garden injuries Part 2

Energy

Water pumping windmills

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

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...

Catch your own bait

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

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