Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

The Forever Floor

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Pizza Casserole

Orange Chiffon Cake

Algerian honeyed lamb kebabs

Zucchini custard pie

Self-reliance

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

The many benefits of garlic

Saving money on the homestead

Energy

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

Build your own battery charging station

An $89 backup generator

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Thoughts on ammunition

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...