Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Fermenting Chicken Feed

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

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Build a stone wall

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

A house a tornado helped build

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Growing and Using Peppers

Blueberry Cash Crop

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Pita bread

Self-reliance

7 Mistakes of food storage

A worthwhile journey

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Building and stocking your pantry

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Water pumping windmills

Build Your Own Car Wash

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Tailoring guns to females

Thoughts on ammunition

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

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

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...