Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Animal disease traceability

Fermenting Chicken Feed

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Build a log crib

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Install rafters alone the easy way

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Farm and Garden

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Build Your Own Hoop House

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

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

The time-travel ad

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Tortellini Soup

Fig preserves

Making dandelions palatable

Self-reliance

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Solar-powered chicken coop

Solar Food Drying

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Picking a holster

Air power superiority

Of guns and snakes

The time for modern; the time for traditional

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...