Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Redworm farming

Building

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

Renovating old walls

Build a poultry killing cone

Build your own log home in the woods

Building and using wattle fences

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Blueberry Cash Crop

Slug Zapper

Home-Grown Eggs

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Modify your oven to bake great bread

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

Breakfast Cereal

Self-reliance

Cast iron

Medicinal uses of garlic

Advice from second-time homesteaders

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Energy class: Part 1

Power Up

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Catch your own bait

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

Our energy crisis Part 2 — Nuclear energy is sensible and safe

Helping crackpots kill kids

The burglar does far more than steal!

Animals

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Finding the best dog for the country life

Good-bye old friend

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising your own beef

Self-Reliance

Earning money from home

Simplifying simplicity

Choosing a chain saw

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants still need a boost throughout the growing season. We like...

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Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding and productive fruits I can grow in our Zone 2...

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