Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Get to know your spiders

Good-bye old friend

Building

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

By Robert E. Kramer Issue #42 • November/December, 1996 Materials 1 propane or butane torch or campfire to heat up metal rod. 1 steel rod at...

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build an attached solar greenhouse

This coop is for the birds

Small engine maintenance for women

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

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...

The barnyard scramble

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

The time-travel ad

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Sourdough simplified

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Braised venison pepper steak

Self-reliance

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Storing dry foods

There’s no such thing as free land!

Stay clear of young wild animals

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Is steam power in your future?

Portable solar power

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

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...

Women and guns

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...