Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Raising cattle on your own place

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

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Build a chicken house in a day

By Anita Evangelista Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 We built our chicken house for around $200. We could have done it for less if we were...

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

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

This coop is for the birds

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet....

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Propagating Plants

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Remembering what grandma used

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Food and recipes

Healthy holiday munchies — Guaranteed to take the sneak out of snacking

Baked Spaghetti

Honey whole wheat bread

Boost your immune system with fast and easy fish dishes

Self-reliance

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Buying a used mobile home

What to do when there’s no doctor

Breastfeeding — A primer

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Solar power trailer Part 1

Millenium Vehicles

Guns and Hunting

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

The Appleseed Project

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...