Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising your own beef for your family

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

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Three Raised Bed Designs

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Pruning Blueberries

Meat For the Homestead

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Grandpa’s justice

Remembering what grandma used

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Food and recipes

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Banana-Apricot Bars

Twice Cooked Pork

Self-reliance

Stay clear of young wild animals

Space heater safety tips

Survival/utility vest

The joys of making soap

Energy

Power Up

Generators alone are not enough

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Cold weather shooting considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

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...