Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Home Dairying

Building

This coop is for the birds

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for 99 cents, or you can go out to...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

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...

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

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Build a Keyhole Garden

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...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Caribbean Catfish

Cheesy fish chowder

Orange honey pudding

Honey whole wheat bread

Self-reliance

Your survival depends on water

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

How to select the right backup generator

Solar Building Design

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Picking a holster

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...