Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising your own beef

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

Brooder in a box

Building

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Getting logs

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Farm and Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

By John Fuchs Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 Leaves are an excellent way to add organic matter to the garden. However, using rawor unprocessedleaves has some...

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

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

Grow some winter squash this year

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

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

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Cookies in a jar

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Fried tuna patties

Self-reliance

Survival firebuilding skills

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Job site solar power

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...