Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Home Dairying

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

Renovating old walls

Five building tricks for super strong framing

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Farm and Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet....

Fruit Trees

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The time-travel ad

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

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

Barmbrack

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

More tips and tricks for the kitchen

Self-reliance

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

This country job really rocks

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Solar Building Design

Emergency solar power for $950

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...