Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Where our farm animals come from

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Rural Building

Small engine maintenance for women

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...

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Naughty Peppers

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Constitution of the united States of America

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

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

Food and recipes

Polish Chicken

Concord Sherbet

Cheddar Breakfast Pizza

Preserving plums

Self-reliance

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Energy

Portable solar power

Is steam power in your future?

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

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Women and guns

Air power superiority

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...