Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Where our farm animals come from

Good-bye old friend

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

How safe is your electric fence?

By Eloise Twining I’ve used solar powered electric fencing on my California ranch for at least 35 years. Over that time electric fencing has proved...

Build a chicken tractor

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Building and using wattle fences

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a Composter

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Grandpa’s justice

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Chocolate crinkles

Caribbean Catfish

Garlic Soup

Texas Fireballs By Randy Young

Self-reliance

The accidental homesteader

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Choosing a chain saw

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Prepper power! Part 1

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Women and guns

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...