Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Heart healthy recipes

Challah

Jamaican Beef Patties

Turkey the old-fashioned way

Self-reliance

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

How to maintain your chimney

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

13 steps to a life of freedom

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Solar power trailer Part 1

Solar-powered water purifiers

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...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Catch your own bait

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...