Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

By Melissa Souza  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 My family is committed to becoming as self-sufficient...

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build your own portable forge

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Farm and Garden

Growing Microgreens

By Lisa Nourse Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Sweet Potato Greens

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Duck with Mushrooms

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Lamb Curry with Yogurt

Sweet potato pudding

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Fire resistant property

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

City boy, country boy

Energy

Water pumping windmills

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Generators alone are not enough

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Just because

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Reload your own brass

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...