Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Beekeeping basics

Goat birthing and raising kids

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

How to maintain a dirt road

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Farm and Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Saving Seeds

Blueberry Cash Crop

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The time-travel ad

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Raspberry Pears with Chocolate Sauce

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

The incredible cattail — The super Wal-Mart of the swamp

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

Self-reliance

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Storing dry foods

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Solar Building Design

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

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...

Tailoring guns to females

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Reload your own brass

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...