Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Home Dairying

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

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

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

The house that Dorothy built

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The barnyard scramble

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

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Homemade baking extracts

Liver Fricassee

Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Self-reliance

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Homemade pest traps

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Tale of a country family

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Sight and sound enhancement

Big boomer guns

Just because

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...