Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Is that a good pig?

The homestead cat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

By James Ballou Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 A certain degree of self reliance is obtainable by those who have the knowledge and skills, resourcefulness, courage,...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

The Home Citrus Orchard

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The barnyard scramble

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Garlic – the glorious bulb

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Potato Bread

Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie

Self-reliance

Foraging for wild berries

How we found our remote backwoods home

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Better wood heating

Energy

Power-up bag

Prepper power! Part 1

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Guns and Hunting

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

Of guns and snakes

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...