Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Finding the best dog for the country life

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising your own beef

Building

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Shake update

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Three Raised Bed Designs

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Sweet Potato Greens

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Grow some winter squash this year

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Remembering what grandma used

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Basic chicken broth

Bread — The staff of life

Pear honey

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Self-reliance

Wash day

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Preparing for winter

Cleaning a well

Energy

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Generators alone are not enough

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

The Appleseed Project

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

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

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

Of kids and guns

Our ‘unenumerated’ rights

The unheralded roots of America’s freedoms

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces

Animals

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Brooder in a box

Is that a good pig?

Raising rabbits for profit

Self-Reliance

Raising kids simply

Preparedness for travelers

Storm survivors

Simplifying simplicity

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until dusk? Do you really need to raise enough vegetables to...

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Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method we've come up with in the past few thousand years...

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