Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Is that a good pig?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Make adobe bricks

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build Your Own Car Wash

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Mid-season planting

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Food and recipes

Beef and Cabbage Soup

Stewed tomatoes

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

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Self-reliance

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Harvest your own firewood

Foraging for wild berries

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

Emergency solar power for $950

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

The light at the end of the gun

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

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...