Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Raising your own beef for your family

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Building and stocking your pantry

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Saving Seeds

Build Your Own Hoop House

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

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

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Pears in Caramel Syrup

Salmon loaf

Canned bacon — Roll your own

Canning game meat

Self-reliance

How we found our remote backwoods home

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Homestead helpers

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Energy class: Part 3

Solar Building Design

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...