Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Home Dairying

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Shake update

How safe is your electric fence?

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Fermenting Chicken Feed

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The greatest American who was never President

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

Food and recipes

Can your own tomato products

Green Shrimp Soup

Canning 101 — Pickles, fruits, jams, jellies, etc.

Linguini with Clam Sauce

Self-reliance

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Food security 101: part 2

A young couple moves to the country

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Making and using a solar cooker

Build Your Own Car Wash

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Firearms and cold weather considerations

How to shoot a handgun accurately

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...