Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Farm and Garden

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Never too busy to make bread

Apple and Potato Soup

Nanny B’s benne bake

Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad

Self-reliance

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Swedish log candle

Small camp security

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Prepper power! Part 2

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Just because

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...