Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising Rabbits

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Where our farm animals come from

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

This coop is for the birds

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Three Raised Bed Designs

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:...

Remembering what grandma used

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Grandpa’s justice

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Cracklin’s — An irresistible snack that you can’t stop sneakin’

Layered casserole

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Keep the Ice On

Self-reliance

New yarn from old sweaters

The Trigger Line

Homemade pest traps

The art of living in small spaces

Energy

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Grid-down battery devices

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...