Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

The homestead cat

Beekeeping basics

Building

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Rural Building

A simple backwoods hay baler

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

The $1 Garden

Growing Microgreens

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Catfish Biscuits

The barnyard scramble

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Homemade baking extracts

Tricia’s chicken chili

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Cooking from long-term food storage

Self-reliance

The community treasure chest

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Power your bug-out bag

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

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

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

The Appleseed Project

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...