Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

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...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a pizza oven

Building a $3,000 Barn

Three Raised Bed Designs

Farm and Garden

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Build a Keyhole Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Tea for the garden

Pruning Blueberries

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

The vanishing outhouse

The summer of ’35

Grandpa’s justice

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Apple butter

Fried tuna patties

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Pickled fish and rollmops

Self-reliance

Caring for wounds in the field

This country job really rocks

Homestead helpers

Stay clear of young wild animals

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Portable solar power

Generators alone are not enough

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Moderate power firearms

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Catch your own bait

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...