Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising rabbits for profit

Beekeeping basics

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Rural Building

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Building a $3,000 Barn

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Grandpa’s justice

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The vanishing outhouse

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Kentucky Country Ribs

Woodstove cooking

Pecan twerps

Indian Pudding

Self-reliance

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Getting logs

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Thoughts on ammunition

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...