Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Get to know your spiders

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

By Bill Leonard Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 You can say a great deal in favor of cement block (or, if you prefer, concrete block) building....

Build a Trail

How safe is your electric fence?

Shake update

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Farm and Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans...

Meat For the Homestead

Victory Gardens

Propagating Grapes

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

The vanishing outhouse

Catfish Biscuits

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Persimmon cookies

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Easy-to-make farmer’s cheese

Stuffed sweet peppers

Self-reliance

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Disaster preparation!

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

An $89 backup generator

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

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

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Affordable firearms

Of guns and snakes

Picking a holster

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...