Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Build a poultry killing cone

Raising Rabbits

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

By Bill Leonard Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 You can say a great deal in favor of cement block (or, if you prefer, concrete block) building....

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Farm and Garden

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Earth’s greatest cookies

Texas Fireballs By Randy Young

Chicken San Francisco

Chicken Enchiladas

Self-reliance

Bartering for bad times

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Keeping tools sharp

Better wood heating

Energy

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Solar power trailer Part 1

Is steam power in your future?

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Moderate power firearms

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...