Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Goat birthing and raising kids

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

The homestead cat

Building

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

By Suzy Lowry Geno Website Exclusive • April, 2007 I have what seems like mountains of great "fertilizer" from my barn full of English Angora rabbits....

Woodbarrow

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Building and stocking your pantry

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Fried chicken for breakfast

The barnyard scramble

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Butterpeas

The real “Q” — Barbecue the way it’s supposed to be

Pumpkin preserves

Challah

Self-reliance

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Preparedness for travelers

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Women and guns

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...