Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Bottle-raise a calf

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a portable woodstove for $30

By David Scott Matthews Issue #78 • November/December, 2002 I had a problem. Other men love football, baseball, basketball, or golf. I love to hunt. And...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

A house a tornado helped build

Gabion walls for form and function

Build Your Own Car Wash

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Remembering what grandma used

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Salmon loaf

Vegetable Scramble

Hummus

Brew your own root beer

Self-reliance

The fire wick fire starter

Tale of a country family

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Better wood heating

Energy

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Job site solar power

Hydronic woodstoves

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Moderate power firearms

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...