Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Finding the best dog for the country life

Beekeeping basics

Building

Build a deluxe barrel stove

By David Lee Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Winter is coming again, pretty much on schedule in spite of global warming, and it will be cold,...

Build Your Own Car Wash

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

A simple backwoods hay baler

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a Composter

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The vanishing outhouse

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Waldorf salad

Goat milk recipes

Blueberry Vareniki

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

Self-reliance

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Cast iron

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Energy

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

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

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

Building the coyote rifle

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

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...