Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Redworm farming

Where our farm animals come from

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Build a Composter

Make adobe bricks

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Propagating Plants

Currants and Gooseberries

Pruning Blueberries

Tracing a bean

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

The barnyard scramble

The vanishing outhouse

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Broiled fish fillet with piri piri sauce

Nanny B’s benne bake

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Braised venison pepper steak

Self-reliance

Disaster preparation!

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Swedish log candle

10 country do’s and don’ts

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Just because

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Women and guns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Gee-Whiz: Time

Politics and Commentary

Is the Mainstream Media Finally Recognizing How the War on Drugs is Destroying Our Rights?

My View: Gaining an Appreciation for Risk

Paying for social security with worthless $

Losing our rights as we watch television