Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Once a day milking

Raising Rabbits

Animal disease traceability

Building

Building and stocking your pantry

By Jackie Clay Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 At the turn of the 19th century, most country homes had a walk-in pantry, as well as a...

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Build a chicken tractor

Farm and Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I...

Sweet Potato Greens

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

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...

Catfish Biscuits

Fly it proudly and properly

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Nana V’s fire sauce

Cookies in a jar

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Self-reliance

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Swedish log candle

Make your own firestarters

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Dim bulbs in California

Solar Food Drying

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Picking a holster

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...