Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising Rabbits

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

Build a Trail

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Building a $3,000 Barn

A simple backwoods hay baler

Farm and Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

Naughty Peppers

Fruit Trees

The Best City Garden

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Americana and History

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:...

Grandpa’s justice

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Fried chicken for breakfast

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Baked chili relleno casserole

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Turkey Tetrazzini

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Self-reliance

Wash day

Survival firebuilding skills

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Digging a shallow well

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Prepper power! Part 2

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...