Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Bovine basics for beginners

Is that a good pig?

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

Build a chicken tractor

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Growing and Using Peppers

Jackie’s Garden Primer

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...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned hot chocolate

Fried Foods

Healthy holiday munchies — Guaranteed to take the sneak out of snacking

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Self-reliance

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Clean up your act!

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Keep the Ice On

Power your bug-out bag

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Building the coyote rifle

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Of guns and snakes

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...