Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Where our farm animals come from

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build a pallet fence

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

A river rock shower

Farm and Garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

Sweet Potato Greens

Meat For the Homestead

Okra — Not Just for the South

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Remembering what grandma used

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

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

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

Food and recipes

Chicken and dumpling stew

Galumbki

Bean Salad With Fresh Herbs

Homemade pizza

Self-reliance

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

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

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Shopping to beat inflation

Energy

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

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

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...

Of guns and snakes

Catch your own bait

Tailoring guns to females

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...