Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Home Dairying

Goat birthing and raising kids

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build an all-purpose ladder

By Robert L. Williams Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 The story never varies. If I am doing outside...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Small engine maintenance for women

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Mid-season planting

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The barnyard scramble

Constitution of the united States of America

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Hummus

Root vegetable casserole

Self-reliance

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Saving money on the homestead

A young couple moves to the country

The community treasure chest

Energy

Solar Building Design

Power your bug-out bag

Solar Food Drying

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

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...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Reload your own brass

Picking a holster

Affordable firearms

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...