Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Shelves and benches

By David Lee Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Money doesn't buy happiness but it sure does buy a lot of stuff. If it is nice stuff...

Renovating old walls

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Tea for the garden

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Poor man’s shrimp cocktail on perch

Kentucky Country Ribs

Italian Christmas bread

Mac’s lamb curry bake

Self-reliance

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Pump water for free

Survival firebuilding skills

Life-saving snowshoes

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Build a community assistance recharging station

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Reload your own brass

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

The Appleseed Project

The time for modern; the time for traditional

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...