Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising your own beef

Once a day milking

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Build a compost tumbler

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

The house that Dorothy built

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Farm and Garden

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

Sweet Potato Greens

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

The Homestead Greenhouse

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

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...

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Catfish Biscuits

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Nana V’s fire sauce

How to make kombucha

Fudge macaroon pie

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Waterpower for personal use

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Affordable firearms

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...