Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising your own beef

Finding the best dog for the country life

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Build a chicken house in a day

By Anita Evangelista Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 We built our chicken house for around $200. We could have done it for less if we were...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build a graceful footbridge

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Gardening for Treasure

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

The summer of ’35

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Salsa

Fried Foods

How to can chopped garlic

Italian Pot Roast

Self-reliance

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Saving money on the homestead

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Make your own firestarters

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Homemade electric power

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Building the coyote rifle

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...