Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Beekeeping basics

Building

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Build a poultry killing cone

Choosing a chain saw

The house that Dorothy built

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy...

Growing Productive Strawberries

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Growing and Using Peppers

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The time-travel ad

Remembering what grandma used

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Buckboard bacon

Corn cob jelly

Irish coffee

Self-reliance

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

There’s no such thing as free land!

Teaching the joy of reading

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Energy

Water pumping windmills

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Hydronic woodstoves

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

How to shoot a handgun accurately

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Of guns and snakes

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...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Politics and Commentary

Lessons for My Children…Chapter 3: Hiding from the government

A history lesson from Ayn Rand

Analyzing Obama on guns

Gun control, race, and rotten politicians