Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Goat birthing and raising kids

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

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

Building

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Build Your Own Car Wash

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

The Potato Hole

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

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

Catfish Biscuits

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Tahini — A health food par-excellence

Butterpeas

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Apple ham salad

Self-reliance

Swedish log candle

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Cash in on your household junk

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Keep the Ice On

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Women and guns

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

Use the right ammunition!

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...