Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Brooder in a box

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 When I bought 10 dry barren "affordable" acres back in 1981 I got what I paid for: No...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Stairs — The next level

Build your own log home in the woods

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Build Your Own Hoop House

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

The barnyard scramble

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Fried chicken for breakfast

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Chicken Enchiladas

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Hummus

Corn cob jelly

Self-reliance

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Homemade skin care products

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Dim bulbs in California

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Choose your ammo… police style

Reload your own brass

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...