Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Goat birthing and raising kids

Good-bye old friend

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Gabion walls for form and function

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Easy awnings

Farm and Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet....

How to Grow Potatoes

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Growing and Using Peppers

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Catfish Biscuits

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

How to use those leftovers

Red flannel hash

Baked Bean Soup

Grouse Hunting — The Ultimate Joy of Autumn

Self-reliance

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Homestead helpers

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Buy your country place from the government

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Generators alone are not enough

Job site solar power

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Choose your ammo… police style

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...