Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising your own beef

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Build a barrel stove

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

Build your own portable forge

How to Install a Steel Roof

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

Grow some winter squash this year

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

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

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

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

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

Food and recipes

Caribbean Barbecued Pork Steaks

Baking Bread

Nanny B’s benne bake

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes

Self-reliance

The accidental homesteader

Swedish log candle

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Cleaning a well

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

The light at the end of the gun

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...