Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

How safe is your electric fence?

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

The greatest American who was never President

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Choose your ammo… police style

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

My View: Gaining an appreciation for risk

Introducing the international tax cartel

Gulf War II opened the eyes of Americans to the UN and the media

A reason for the Second Amendment

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Raising your own beef for your family

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Paring down for off-grid living

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved Water Quality, You...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

By Joe Mooney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 I've always found the use of seasonal rains by native peoples very fascinating. From the diversion of floodwaters in earthen berms to irrigation via "aquaduct," it seemed incredible...