Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Is that a good pig?

Raising Rabbits

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 Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Build a Groundhog Snare

Claw Hammers

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a Composter

How to Grow Garlic

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...

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Fried chicken for breakfast

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Food and recipes

The enchanting Chanterelle — Gourmet goodies free from the forest

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Self-reliance

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Survival infection control

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

Take care of your knife

Energy

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

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Picking a holster

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...