Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Is that a good pig?

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

How to Grow Great Carrots

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

The time-travel ad

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Algerian honeyed lamb kebabs

Winter baking warms the house

Braised rabbit with red wine

Quince preserves

Self-reliance

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

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

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Sight and sound enhancement

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...