Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising rabbits for profit

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

By Thomas Brewer Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 I am not ambidextrous. My wife, Judith, uses chopsticks with either hand or even both hands at once....

A cabin for one

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

The Forever Floor

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Remembering what grandma used

Fly it proudly and properly

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

Food and recipes

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Dandelion recipes

Cookies in a jar

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Self-reliance

Cash in on your household junk

How to make money from storage building auctions

Caring for wounds in the field

Your survival depends on water

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Solar hot water systems

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Affordable firearms

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...