Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Get to know your spiders

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Growing Microgreens

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

The barnyard scramble

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

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Corned Beef Cakes

Lazy housewife pickles

Red flannel hash

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Self-reliance

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

There’s no such thing as free land!

Swedish log candle

Small camp security

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Hydronic woodstoves

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

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The light at the end of the gun

Sight and sound enhancement

Catch your own bait

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...