Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising your own beef

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Gabion walls for form and function

By Joe Mooney Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 I think there has to be something ingrained in the human brain that loves things built of stone....

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Building and using wattle fences

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Companion Planting

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only...

Naughty Peppers

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Testing Soil

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

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

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

The greatest American who was never President

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time

Dilled oyster crackers

Chicken Enchiladas

Waldorf salad

Self-reliance

Cut your grocery bill in half

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Of guns and snakes

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Sight and sound enhancement

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...