Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

By Rick Brannan Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 There are few things more frustrating and dangerous than working with a dull knife. In my quest for...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build your own repeating mouse trap

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Home-Grown Eggs

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

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...

The greatest American who was never President

The time-travel ad

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

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Brew your own root beer

Maple Spiced Broiled Salmon

Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Self-reliance

Homestead security for women

Caring for wounds in the field

Harvest your own firewood

Turn your passion into a business

Energy

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

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

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...