Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Is that a good pig?

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

Building your chicken coop

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Build a poultry killing cone

Building and using wattle fences

Farm and Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re...

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Grandpa’s justice

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

Chicken Curry

Apple-Mango Scallops

Self-reliance

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Circle of friends

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Energy class: Part 3

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Affordable firearms

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...