Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Redworm farming

Is that a good pig?

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Building

Small engine maintenance for women

By Michelle Richards Issue #24 • November/December, 1993 How many small engines do you have on your homestead? I counted mine the other day and came...

This coop is for the birds

The house that Dorothy built

How to Install a Steel Roof

Make adobe bricks

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Propagating Plants

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Hearty breakfast fillets

Gather rose hips for health

These salads are hearty dishes

Self-reliance

What to do when there’s no doctor

Harvest your own firewood

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Power-up bag

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...