Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Home Dairying

Bovine basics for beginners

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Make adobe bricks

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Last winter I got a phone call from an old friend in Arizona. One of his sons...

Building your chicken coop

Building and using wattle fences

Gabion walls for form and function

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

The Home Citrus Orchard

Sweet Potato Greens

Build a Keyhole Garden

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Grandpa’s justice

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Baked Spaghetti

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

Pecan Crusted Trout

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Self-reliance

Dehydrating eggs at home

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

7 Mistakes of food storage

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

Energy class: Part 3

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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...