Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Brooder in a box

Animal disease traceability

Building

Small engine maintenance for women

By Michelle Richards Issue #24 • November/December, 1993 How many small engines do you have on your homestead? I counted mine the other day and came...

Making and using a solar cooker

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Make adobe bricks

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

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

Gardening the Year ‘Round

How to Grow Garlic

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

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

The vanishing outhouse

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Hot Artichoke Dip

Wonderful wilderness wines

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

Self-reliance

A young couple moves to the country

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Energy class: Part 1

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

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 Appleseed Project

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Of guns and snakes

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...