Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Goat birthing and raising kids

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Once a day milking

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...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

This coop is for the birds

Make adobe bricks

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Growing and Using Peppers

Mid-season planting

The Potato Hole

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....

The barnyard scramble

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

Baked Beans, Two

Turning to turmeric

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Self-reliance

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Foraging for wild berries

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Is steam power in your future?

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Air power superiority

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

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...