Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Is that a good pig?

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build a portable woodstove for $30

By David Scott Matthews Issue #78 • November/December, 2002 I had a problem. Other men love football, baseball, basketball, or golf. I love to hunt. And...

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Build a pallet fence

Building and stocking your pantry

Claw Hammers

Farm and Garden

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Currants and Gooseberries

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

The time-travel ad

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

The barnyard scramble

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Dishpan cookies

Hawaiian poha jam

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Sweet Pickles

Self-reliance

Storm survivors

Building and stocking your pantry

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Power Up

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Picking a holster

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...