Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Choosing a chain saw

By Steven Gregersen Issue #119 •September/October, 2009 Winter will be here soon and along with winter comes cold weather and high heating bills. Obviously there's nothing...

Our Unconventional House

Build your own log home in the woods

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

How to Grow Potatoes

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

Remembering what grandma used

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Fried chicken for breakfast

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Successful cold storage

Hamentaschen

Growing and Using Cilantro

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Buying the right emergency radio

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Start a fire in any weather

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Build your own battery charging station

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

How big a gun do you need?

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...