Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Bottle-raise a calf

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Renovating old walls

Make adobe bricks

Making and using a solar cooker

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

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

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

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...

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Basic brown stock

Polish Chicken

Fudge macaroon pie

Hamentaschen

Self-reliance

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

10 ways to make money on your land

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

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

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Reload your own brass

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Cold weather shooting considerations

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...