Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Once a day milking

Where our farm animals come from

Brooder in a box

Building

Build a lean-to greenhouse

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 Just thinking about a greenhouse can stimulate the senses. In our minds' eyes, we can see the filtered...

Shake update

Never underestimate a woman

Build a chicken tractor

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Farm and Garden

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Build a Heated Germination Bed

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

Pruning Blueberries

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Fried chicken for breakfast

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Growing and Using Cilantro

Deconstructing a bowl of red

The healthy and tantalizing pomegranate

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Self-reliance

Garden injuries Part 2

Homeschooling through high school

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Cleaning a well

Energy

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

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

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Reload your own brass

Canning game meat

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

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...