Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising your own beef for your family

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

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...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Farm and Garden

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Home-Grown Eggs

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

The time-travel ad

Fried chicken for breakfast

The greatest American who was never President

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Potato Latkes

Pot Roast With Spaghetti

Filipino Chicken Stew

Avoiding common canning mistakes

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Brood X

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

Water pumping windmills

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Generators alone are not enough

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...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Catch your own bait

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...