Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Bovine basics for beginners

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

By Rick Brannan Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 There are few things more frustrating and dangerous than working with a dull knife. In my quest for...

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Rural Building

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build Your Own Car Wash

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Mid-season planting

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

The summer of ’35

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Heart healthy recipes

Hoppin’ John with fresh asparagus beans

Just for Kids: Some pioneer recipes

Thai fried rice

Self-reliance

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Breastfeeding — A primer

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

The Trigger Line

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Water pumping windmills

Hydronic woodstoves

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...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Just because

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...