Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising your own beef

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

Building

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Tracing a bean

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The greatest American who was never President

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Food and recipes

Zucchini casserole

More tips and tricks for the kitchen

Wonderful wilderness wines

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Self-reliance

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

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

The many benefits of garlic

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Power Up

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Sight and sound enhancement

The light at the end of the gun

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...