Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

The homestead cat

Raising your own beef

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

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit...

Blueberry Cash Crop

Build Your Own Hoop House

Testing Soil

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

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:...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Catfish Biscuits

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Ten Marinades For Summer

Breakfast Cereal

Cornmeal sour cream biscuits

Grandma’s persimmon pudding

Self-reliance

Call me plumber

Pump water for free

Cast iron

Making maple syrup

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Power your bug-out bag

Solar power for farm and ranch

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

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...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Sight and sound enhancement

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...