Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Once a day milking

Bottle-raise a calf

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

How safe is your electric fence?

By Eloise Twining I’ve used solar powered electric fencing on my California ranch for at least 35 years. Over that time electric fencing has proved...

Rural Building

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Growing Strawberries

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Apple butter

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Canning game meat

Baklava

Self-reliance

Make a quilt out of Levis

Avoiding heat illness

Survival/utility vest

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Power Up

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

The Appleseed Project

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Tailoring guns to females

Big boomer guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...