Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

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

Raising rabbits for profit

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Keeping fresh water in front of our livestock in the winter has always been somewhat of a problem....

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

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

The summer of ’35

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Catfish Biscuits

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Plantation Coffee Punch

Toffee Bars, Maple Kisses, and Chocolate-Nut Cloud Candy

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Self-reliance

Food security 101

A young couple moves to the country

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

A brief history of health and medicine

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Politics and Commentary

The world’s least-free country

Justice Breyer is wrong about the 2nd Amendment

What kind of Americans sit on our juries?

Guns, suicide prevention, and backwoods lifestyles

Animals

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Good-bye old friend

By Lucy Shober Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 Big Poney died today. He was 34 years old and had been going down pretty rapidly over this...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising rabbits for profit

Self-Reliance

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Homestead Helpers

Farm and Garden

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

By Jackie Clay Issue #56 In the past I've grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this, I was able to grow things like sweet corn in...

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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. For the past five years or so, I have read...

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