Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Building Eric’s house

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

Farm and Garden

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Tea for the garden

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Fly it proudly and properly

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Catfish Biscuits

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Baking Bread

Demystifying real rye bread

Keep the Ice On

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Self-reliance

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Take care of your knife

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Energy

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Energy class: Part 3

Is steam power in your future?

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Affordable firearms

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Building the coyote rifle

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...