Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Animal disease traceability

Get to know your spiders

Raising Rabbits

Brooder in a box

Building

Small engine maintenance for women

By Michelle Richards Issue #24 • November/December, 1993 How many small engines do you have on your homestead? I counted mine the other day and came...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

The house that Dorothy built

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a chicken tractor

Farm and Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Caring for your chickens in winter

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Food and recipes

Italian Pot Roast

Kugel

Canning meat plus how to use your canned meat

Nana V’s fire sauce

Self-reliance

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

I heat my house by burning corn

Teaching the joy of reading

Flea market stories and strategies

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Job site solar power

Battery powered weekend retreat

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...