Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Goat birthing and raising kids

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build a log crib

Build your own log home in the woods

Small engine maintenance for women

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Meat For the Homestead

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Catfish Biscuits

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Canning 101 — Pickles, fruits, jams, jellies, etc.

Making good jerky

A Native American feast

These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts

Self-reliance

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

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

The wonderful world of axes

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Catch your own bait

Building the coyote rifle

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...