Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising your own beef

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Build your own portable forge

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Companion Planting

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

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...

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

The vanishing outhouse

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Eggplant salad

Beans for Sarah

Corned Beef Cakes

Linguini with Clam Sauce

Self-reliance

Stay clear of young wild animals

Swedish log candle

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Hydronic woodstoves

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

How big a gun do you need?

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...