Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Bottle-raise a calf

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Building

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

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

Solar Building Design

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Installing a steel roof

Build Your Own Hoop House

Farm and Garden

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Tea for the garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Composter

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 time-travel ad

The barnyard scramble

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Blonde brownies

Apple-Mango Scallops

Canning chickens for the pantry

Beans for Sarah

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Drive your own freshwater well

Energy

Portable solar power

Generators alone are not enough

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...