Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Goat birthing and raising kids

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Shelves and benches

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

A simple backwoods hay baler

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Artichoke-Spinach Casserole

A healthy heart starts in the kitchen

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Self-reliance

What to do when there’s no doctor

Storm survivors

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Solar power trailer Part 1

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Use the right ammunition!

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The light at the end of the gun

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...