Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Animal disease traceability

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Keeping fresh water in front of our livestock in the winter has always been somewhat of a problem....

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Our Unconventional House

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

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...

How to Grow Potatoes

Meat For the Homestead

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Lentil and meat stew

How to tell a bad egg

Spider rice casserole

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

Self-reliance

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

How we found our remote backwoods home

The community treasure chest

Garden injuries

Energy

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...