Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a poultry killing cone

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

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

Stairs — The next level

Five building tricks for super strong framing

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

Farm and Garden

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

By Darlene Polachic Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 Why spend money buying plant starter packs when you can make all you need from old newspapers? The...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Grow some winter squash this year

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

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

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Mango Delight

A Native American feast

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Artichoke-Spinach Casserole

Self-reliance

Saving money on the homestead

13 steps to a life of freedom

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

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Energy

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Emergency solar power for $950

Solar-powered water purifiers

Battery powered weekend retreat

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Women and guns

The light at the end of the gun

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

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...