Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Beekeeping basics

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

How to Grow Potatoes

Growing and Using Peppers

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Grandpa’s justice

The time-travel ad

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Sorrento Salad

Spiced red beans

Kalbi Chim

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Cleaning a well

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Building and stocking your pantry

Energy

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

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...