Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Bovine basics for beginners

Home Dairying

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Build a pizza oven

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

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy...

Currants and Gooseberries

Growing Productive Strawberries

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Fly it proudly and properly

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The time-travel ad

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Orange Chiffon Cake

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Persimmon cookies

Tomato and coriander salad

Self-reliance

The wonderful world of axes

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Homestead Helpers

Homemade skin care products

Energy

Homemade electric power

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

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

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Picking a holster

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

How to shoot a handgun accurately

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Politics and Commentary

Is it time for an education revolution?

How to achieve affordable health care

Dr. Laura tells her listeners she’s decided to pack a gun

Can America be Saved from Stupid People?

Animals

Good-bye old friend

By Lucy Shober Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 Big Poney died today. He was 34 years old and had been going down pretty rapidly over this...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Home Dairying

Bovine basics for beginners

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Self-Reliance

Garden injuries Part 2

Preparing for winter

Woodstove cooking

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large or small varieties. Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 When we dig in...

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A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250 seed cloves of Chesnok and Russian Red garlic. I've been...

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