Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Slaughtering and Butchering

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

A salvaged oak floor for $5

By Robert L. Williams Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 Several months ago we decided we did not want to install a traditional bedroom floor of plywood...

How safe is your electric fence?

Build Your Own Hoop House

Stairs — The next level

Making and using a solar cooker

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Propagating Plants

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

How to Grow Potatoes

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

The vanishing outhouse

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Pheasant and dumplings

Chilies rellenos

Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time

Egg thingies

Self-reliance

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

This country job really rocks

Foraging for wild berries

City boy, country boy

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Power your bug-out bag

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

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...