Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Animal disease traceability

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

A river rock shower

Solar Building Design

This coop is for the birds

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

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Growing Microgreens

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Sweet Potato Greens

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...

Catfish Biscuits

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Dishpan cookies

Making hard cider

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Jambalaya stew

Self-reliance

Start a fire in any weather

The accidental homesteader

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Energy class: Part 3

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Canning game meat

The light at the end of the gun

Air power superiority

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...