Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Finding the best dog for the country life

Home Dairying

Building

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

How safe is your electric fence?

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Growing Productive Strawberries

Gardening Tips and Tricks

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

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

Liver Fricassee

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Self-reliance

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Cast iron

Energy

Power-up bag

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Solar power for farm and ranch

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

How big a gun do you need?

Reload your own brass

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...