Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building a $3,000 Barn

By Robert Van Putten Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 There comes a time when all homesteaders start thinking of livestock, and 14 years ago, we were...

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Caring for wounds in the field

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Lessons for My Children Chapter 1

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Learning to love the high desert

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved Water Quality, You...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him, and he's a happy little man. He's not alone. Many...