Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Animal disease traceability

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Three Raised Bed Designs

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Fruit Trees

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Grandpa’s justice

The barnyard scramble

The vanishing outhouse

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Masala jheenga

Country-style Pork Stew

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Growing and Using Cilantro

Self-reliance

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Energy

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Power-up bag

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Just because

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Women and guns

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...