Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Our Unconventional House

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Testing Soil

Mid-season planting

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Fried chicken for breakfast

The summer of ’35

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Liver Fricassee

Seven secrets of Dutch oven cooking

Turning to turmeric

German green beans

Self-reliance

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Breastfeeding — A primer

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

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,...