Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Brooder in a box

Home Dairying

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Make adobe bricks

Build Your Own Car Wash

A house a tornado helped build

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Venison Stew

Fried Foods

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Dark moons

Self-reliance

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Better wood heating

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar power trailer Part 2

Solar Food Drying

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Tailoring guns to females

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...