Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Is that a good pig?

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Building Eric’s house

Install rafters alone the easy way

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

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Tracing a bean

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

The summer of ’35

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Spiced red beans

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Orange Chiffon Cake

Making baby food at home

Self-reliance

Essential oils

The Trigger Line

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Homemade pest traps

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Prepper power! Part 1

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Canning game meat

Just because

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...