Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Redworm farming

Building

Build an attached solar greenhouse

By David Lee Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 We planned it to be permanent, well built, and able to withstand the extremes of temperature, humidity, and...

How to Install a Steel Roof

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Make adobe bricks

Farm and Garden

Grow some winter squash this year

By Lisa Nourse I love summertime — I love the green of the trees, the warm weather, and growing my own food. I especially love...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Home-Grown Eggs

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:...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The greatest American who was never President

The barnyard scramble

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

Food and recipes

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes

Avoiding common canning mistakes

Zucchini with green chilies

Canning game meat

Self-reliance

Better wood heating

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

No dentist? Oh, no!

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Canning game meat

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Picking a holster

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...