Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Is that a good pig?

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Rural Building

How safe is your electric fence?

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement...

How to Grow Garlic

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Flowers Brighten 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...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Grandpa’s justice

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Spicy Beef and Peppers

Dishpan cookies

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Self-reliance

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

This country job really rocks

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

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

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Big boomer guns

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

How big a gun do you need?

Canning game meat

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...