Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Goat birthing and raising kids

Brooder in a box

Once a day milking

Building

Installing a steel roof

By Norman Bennett Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 One of the reasons steel roofs have become so popular is the simplicity and economy with which they...

Gabion walls for form and function

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Build a stone wall

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Fly it proudly and properly

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

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

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

Food and recipes

These salads are hearty dishes

The chicken and the egg

Basic brown stock

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Self-reliance

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Caveman walking stick

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Energy

Solar Food Drying

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Dim bulbs in California

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Big boomer guns

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...