Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Build a homestead Copy Cart

By Charles Sanders Issue #45 • July/August, 1997 I don't know too many homesteaders, gardeners, or small farmers who haven't at one time or another wished...

Shelves and benches

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

A house a tornado helped build

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Home-Grown Eggs

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

The time-travel ad

Biological and chemical weapons through history

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Cheesy fish chowder

Stuffed Mushrooms – Greek Style

Boston Baked Beans

Ginger beer

Self-reliance

Making apple pectin

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Small camp security

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Energy

Portable solar power

Water pumping windmills

Power your bug-out bag

Solar power for farm and ranch

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Use the right ammunition!

Big boomer guns

Of guns and snakes

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...