Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Redworm farming

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

This coop is for the birds

Build a barrel stove

A simple backwoods hay baler

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Farm and Garden

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

By Darlene Polachic Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 Why spend money buying plant starter packs when you can make all you need from old newspapers? The...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

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

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

The vanishing outhouse

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Spicy Beef and Peppers

Zucchini custard pie

Fermented dill pickles

Italian Christmas bread

Self-reliance

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Bartering for bad times

Make your own firestarters

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Building the coyote rifle

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...