Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising your own beef for your family

Raising Rabbits

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

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

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

How to Grow Garlic

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Grandpa’s justice

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Chocolate crinkles

Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time

Fried tuna patties

Kalbi Chim

Self-reliance

Small camp security

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Solar-powered water purifiers

Homemade electric power

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

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

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Use the right ammunition!

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...