Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Bottle-raise a calf

Brooder in a box

Building

Building and Using Wattle Fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Easy awnings

Building and stocking your pantry

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a homestead Copy Cart

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...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Testing Soil

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Americana and History

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

The summer of ’35

Fried chicken for breakfast

Remembering what grandma used

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Española eggs

My garden — A springboard of food, pleasure, and history

7 Mistakes of food storage

Ashe Torsh

Self-reliance

Make a quilt out of Levis

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Power your bug-out bag

Survival storeroom

Energy

Making and using a solar cooker

Keep the Ice On

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Canning game meat

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...