Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising your own beef for your family

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

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...

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

Guns Save Lives Chapter 1: Point Blank

Science and truth. Are they related?

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Raising cattle on your own place

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising your own beef for your family

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests are needed because some plants prefer slightly acidic soil, while...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s basically a method of recycling junk wood to make a...