Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising cattle on your own place

Animal disease traceability

Building

This coop is for the birds

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for 99 cents, or you can go out to...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build a stone wall

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Victory Gardens

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...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Constitution of the united States of America

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Turkey Tetrazzini

Orange Chiffon Cake

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Self-reliance

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Small camp security

Preparing for winter

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

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

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

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

How big is the solar system?

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Politics and Commentary

Defending against terroristic mass murder

Armed civilians can help fight terrorism

Why oil and other fossil fuels are good

Turn the poor into capitalists

Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

By Carrie Peterson Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Whether or not you are fond of rabbit stew, raising rabbits for meat can be a great experience...

Raising cattle on your own place

By Charles Sanders Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Winter won't last forever. It won't be long before spring will arrive and pastures will start to green...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Animal disease traceability

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Self-Reliance

Harvest your own firewood

Start a fire in any weather

The joys of making soap

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space each can fill, but in the types and quantities of...

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Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet. For the past five years or so, I have read...

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