Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Goat birthing and raising kids

Is that a good pig?

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Claw Hammers

By R.E. Rawlinson Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle observed that “Man is a tool using animal … without tools he is nothing, with tools...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a chicken tractor

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Growing Strawberries

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The greatest American who was never President

Fly it proudly and properly

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Chicken San Francisco

Jamaican Beef Patties

Jambalaya stew

Self-reliance

Medicinal uses of garlic

Making apple pectin

Defeating debt

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

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Solar-powered refrigerators

Solar Food Drying

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

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...