Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

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

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

This coop is for the birds

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build a pallet fence

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Build Your Own Hoop House

Naughty Peppers

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

Potato Bread

Self-reliance

Clean up your act!

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Solar-powered chicken coop

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Prepper power! Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Use the right ammunition!

The light at the end of the gun

Tailoring guns to females

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...