Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Slaughtering and Butchering

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Redworm farming

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Renovating old walls

Build a ski sled

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

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

The summer of ’35

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Food and recipes

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

Self-reliance

Cut your grocery bill in half

Garden injuries

The joys of making soap

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Energy

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Homemade electric power

Power your bug-out bag

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

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

Politics and Commentary

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

Looking back on 20 years of BHM

Some thoughts on growing older in the backwoods

Gulf War II opened the eyes of Americans to the UN and the media

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Is that a good pig?

By Kim Dieter Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 Lean ham, roasts, chops, savory sausage, and thick slices of bacon are the reason pigs are raised at...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

The homestead cat

Goat birthing and raising kids

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Self-Reliance

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Brood X

Homestead helpers

The joys of making soap

Farm and Garden

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250 seed cloves of Chesnok and Russian Red garlic. I've been...

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Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None of those flimsy, store bought cotton things for us. Our...

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