Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Home Dairying

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

Stairs — The next level

Our Unconventional House

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re...

Growing Strawberries

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The summer of ’35

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Cookies in a jar

Dublin Coddle

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Wonderful wilderness wines

Self-reliance

How to maintain your chimney

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Wash day

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Energy

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Power Up

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

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...