Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Once a day milking

Building

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

By Robert Van Putten Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 For a year and a half, we lived in an 18-foot travel trailer while building a straw...

Build a log crib

Building Eric’s house

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Tracing a bean

Gardening for Treasure

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Boost your immune system with fast and easy fish dishes

Solar Food Drying

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Stewed tomatoes

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

Buying a used mobile home

The accidental homesteader

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Making and using a solar cooker

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

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...