Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Once a day milking

Building

Install rafters alone the easy way

By Robert L. Williams Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 Anyone who has ever worked on roof framing knows that nailing up rafters is a two-man job...

Woodbarrow

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

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

The time-travel ad

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Pistachios — Historic and healthy nuts

You can become a hardcore forager

Bob’s basic breads for beginners, bachelors, barbarians, and backwoodsmen

Self-reliance

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Make your own firestarters

Call me plumber

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Solar hot water systems

Solar system codes — Build it right!

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Affordable firearms

Choose your ammo… police style

Air power superiority

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...