Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Once a day milking

Is that a good pig?

Building

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

By Robert Van Putten Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a rustic log cabin deep in the...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

How to become a backyard beekeeper

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...

Grandpa’s justice

The vanishing outhouse

Fried chicken for breakfast

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Woodstove cooking

Self-reliance

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Getting logs

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

10 country do’s and don’ts

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Portable solar power

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Picking a holster

The light at the end of the gun

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

The coming ice age

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Politics and Commentary

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

Getting rich through generosity

The Government gorilla in our home

Which is better, a small town or city?

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Finding the best dog for the country life

Bottle-raise a calf

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Self-Reliance

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Caring for wounds in the field

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Farm and Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers both annuals and perennials. There's something about bright orange...

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Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests are needed because some plants prefer slightly acidic soil, while...

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