Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Animal disease traceability

Beekeeping basics

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build a ski sled

Building and Using Wattle Fences

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Farm and Garden

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up....

Okra — Not Just for the South

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Remembering what grandma used

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Pear honey

Bob’s basic breads for beginners, bachelors, barbarians, and backwoodsmen

Fresh cucumber delight

Self-reliance

13 steps to a life of freedom

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Survival storeroom

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Energy

Solar Building Design

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Hydronic woodstoves

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Catch your own bait

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

How big a gun do you need?

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...