Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

Home Dairying

Building

Build a homestead Copy Cart

By Charles Sanders Issue #45 • July/August, 1997 I don't know too many homesteaders, gardeners, or small farmers who haven't at one time or another wished...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build a stone wall

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

How to Grow Garlic

Build a Composter

Mid-season planting

Three Raised Bed Designs

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...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Oregon Grape Jam

Apple Coffee Cake

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Self-reliance

New yarn from old sweaters

The Trigger Line

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

The community treasure chest

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Homemade electric power

Is steam power in your future?

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

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...

Building the coyote rifle

Reload your own brass

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

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...