Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Slaughtering and Butchering

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Choosing a chain saw

By Steven Gregersen Issue #119 •September/October, 2009 Winter will be here soon and along with winter comes cold weather and high heating bills. Obviously there's nothing...

A river rock shower

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build a Composter

Farm and Garden

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

By Joe Mooney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 I've always found the use of seasonal rains by native peoples very fascinating. From the diversion of floodwaters...

Meat For the Homestead

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Home-Grown Eggs

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Orange Chiffon Cake

Old World apple chutney

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Avoiding heat illness

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Breastfeeding — A primer

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Energy class: Part 3

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Building the coyote rifle

Big boomer guns

Picking a holster

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

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...