Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising your own beef for your family

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Shelves and benches

By David Lee Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Money doesn't buy happiness but it sure does buy a lot of stuff. If it is nice stuff...

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Choosing a chain saw

A house a tornado helped build

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Meat For the Homestead

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

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 barnyard scramble

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Lemon-Tarragon Veal

Basic brown stock

Fermented dill pickles

Homemade pizza

Self-reliance

Making maple syrup

Fully Involved

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Use the right ammunition!

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

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...