Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Raising your own beef for your family

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Grow some winter squash this year

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Seven secrets of Dutch oven cooking

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The state of freedom in America

Lessons for My Children Chapter 1

Turn the poor into capitalists

My View: Gaining an appreciation for risk

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Start your food storage on $10 a week

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did you know that sweet potato leaves are loaded with vitamins...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in Newport, Oregon, and noticed a little Chinese lady flipping over...