Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising your own beef

Raising rabbits for profit

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Keeping fresh water in front of our livestock in the winter has always been somewhat of a problem....

Build a lean-to greenhouse

How safe is your electric fence?

A cabin for one

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Sweet Potato Greens

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

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...

The time-travel ad

Catfish Biscuits

Fried chicken for breakfast

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Colorado Cowboy Cookies

Pears in Caramel Syrup

Poor man’s shrimp cocktail on perch

Chow-chow

Self-reliance

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Medical kits for self-reliant families

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Bartering for bad times

Energy

Power-up bag

Job site solar power

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Sight and sound enhancement

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...