Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

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

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

This coop is for the birds

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build a graceful footbridge

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Saving Seeds

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Fried chicken for breakfast

The time-travel ad

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Ashe Torsh

Oregon Grape Jam

Cool dishes for formal summer dining

Aunt Mildred’s honey cake

Self-reliance

Homemade skin care products

Life-saving snowshoes

Making maple syrup

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

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

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

Build Your Own Car Wash

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...