Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Make adobe bricks

Build a barrel stove

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

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...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

The vanishing outhouse

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Apple ham salad

Hawaiian poha jam

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

Self-reliance

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Buying a used mobile home

A guide to buying silver and gold

13 steps to a life of freedom

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Solar Food Drying

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

How big a gun do you need?

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Big boomer guns

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...