Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build a Groundhog Snare

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build a Trail

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...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

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

Victory Gardens

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

The summer of ’35

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Texas Fireballs By Randy Young

Raspberry chocolate torte

Brew your own root beer

The perfect holiday meal

Self-reliance

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Dehydrating eggs at home

A guide to buying silver and gold

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Just because

Catch your own bait

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...