Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Caring for your chickens in winter

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Cash in on your household junk

There’s no such thing as free land!

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Making and using a solar cooker

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Cold weather shooting considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

If you want to survive an emergency, look to yourself, not the Government

The ‘Curious Guy’ and the ‘Offended Woman’

The false argument about defending our freedom

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Learning to love the high desert

Buy your country place from the government

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done by using a water-based nutrient solution to deliver the necessary...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown spinach, there is a world of difference between its taste...