Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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...

Build your own portable forge

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Install rafters alone the easy way

Our Unconventional House

Farm and Garden

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh...

Currants and Gooseberries

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

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

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Remembering what grandma used

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Huckleberries purple gold

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Easy raspberry jam

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Self-reliance

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Bartering for bad times

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Buying the right emergency radio

Energy

Solar hot water systems

Solar power for farm and ranch

Solar power trailer Part 1

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Moderate power firearms

Canning game meat

Women and guns

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

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...