Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Beekeeping basics

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

The house that Dorothy built

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 This isn't the first time we've had an article by and about...

Woodbarrow

This coop is for the birds

Build your own log home in the woods

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Naughty Peppers

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

The time-travel ad

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Baking Bread

Huckleberries purple gold

Uncooked Peanut-butter Candy

The convenience of a bread bucket

Self-reliance

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Energy

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Hydronic woodstoves

Solar-powered refrigerators

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Catch your own bait

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...