Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Is that a good pig?

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

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

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Q. We have just purchased 15 acres, and our question is how to install our septic system, how...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Making and using a solar cooker

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Okra — Not Just for the South

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

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

The time-travel ad

The greatest American who was never President

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Buckboard bacon

Making sausage

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Lenie in the kitchen: Hamburger and potato casserole

Self-reliance

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

This country job really rocks

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Energy

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

Build Your Own Car Wash

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...