Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Get to know your spiders

Raising rabbits for profit

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Build a log crib

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 Baby Zane is probably the only newborn in Hollywood sleeping in a log crib made by his grandmother...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

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

Build a chicken tractor

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Okra — Not Just for the South

Testing Soil

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The time-travel ad

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Raspberry chocolate torte

Blueberry Vareniki

Pistachios — Historic and healthy nuts

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Self-reliance

Food security 101: part 2

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...