Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Rural Building

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Three Raised Bed Designs

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Caring for your chickens in winter

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

How to Grow Garlic

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....

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Raspberry ketchup

Demystifying real rye bread

Zucchini custard pie

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Self-reliance

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Choosing a chain saw

City boy, country boy

Harvest your own firewood

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Build a community assistance recharging station

Prepper power! Part 1

Emergency solar power for $950

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Catch your own bait

Air power superiority

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

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...