Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Brooder in a box

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build your own log home in the woods

Gabion walls for form and function

New invention— The Fencerunner

Farm and Garden

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

The barnyard scramble

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

Catfish Biscuits

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

Food and recipes

Creamed Carrot Soup

Apple and berry pies

Stuffed Eggplant

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Self-reliance

Breastfeeding — A primer

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

An $89 backup generator

Hydronic woodstoves

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Tailoring guns to females

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Politics and Commentary

Finding solutions in firewood

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

Cheap guns are good enough

Climate Change Theory: science or religion?