Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Home Dairying

Goat birthing and raising kids

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

Building

A salvaged oak floor for $5

By Robert L. Williams Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 Several months ago we decided we did not want to install a traditional bedroom floor of plywood...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Building and stocking your pantry

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Naughty Peppers

Tracing a bean

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

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...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

The summer of ’35

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Smoked Salmon

Emergency casserole

Chicken and dumpling stew

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Woodstove cooking

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

How to make money from storage building auctions

Energy

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Solar power for farm and ranch

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Moderate power firearms

Choose your ammo… police style

Canning game meat

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...