Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

New invention— The Fencerunner

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The light at the end of the gun

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Is it time for an education revolution?

How environmental ideology hurts the solar energy industry

We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising your own beef for your family

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

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

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at 4:00 AM by a rooster singing “cock-a-doodle-doo.” At this time...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some superb tomato plants, set them out on May 1 (or...