Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Is that a good pig?

Building

This coop is for the birds

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for 99 cents, or you can go out to...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Our Unconventional House

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Farm and Garden

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

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

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

Build a Composter

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

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

Food and recipes

Country-style Pork Stew

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

Baked Spaghetti

The chicken and the egg

Self-reliance

Turn your passion into a business

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

7 Mistakes of food storage

Homestead Helpers

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Of guns and snakes

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...