Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Good-bye old friend

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Building a $3,000 Barn

Build a pizza oven

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

How to Grow Potatoes

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Duck with Mushrooms

Crabapple jelly

Self-reliance

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Turn your passion into a business

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Build your own battery charging station

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

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...

How big a gun do you need?

Building the coyote rifle

Moderate power firearms

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...