Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

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

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Build a stone wall

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Farm and Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Love Those Green Beans

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Grandpa’s justice

The greatest American who was never President

The time-travel ad

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Blonde brownies

How to can chopped garlic

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Picnicking with class!

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Power your bug-out bag

Food security 101: part 2

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Solar hot water systems

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...