Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Switch your family to goat’s milk

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

Building

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

The house that Dorothy built

A river rock shower

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a Keyhole Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

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

The vanishing outhouse

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Nameless salad and dressing

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Duck with Mushrooms

Self-reliance

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

A worthwhile journey

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

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...