Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Where our farm animals come from

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Shelves and benches

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

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

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...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Companion Planting

The Homestead Greenhouse

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Grandpa’s justice

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

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

Pot Roast With Spaghetti

Preserving plums

Garlic – the glorious bulb

Self-reliance

The accidental homesteader

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

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Power your bug-out bag

Energy

An $89 backup generator

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Generators alone are not enough

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...