Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef

Brooder in a box

Raising your own beef for your family

Home Dairying

Building

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The homesteading lifestyle can require a number of tools to cultivate the garden, maintain the home, repair the...

This coop is for the birds

Build a lean-to greenhouse

A house a tornado helped build

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

The summer of ’35

The vanishing outhouse

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Preserving plums

How to use those leftovers

French Onion Soup

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Self-reliance

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Survival storeroom

What to do when there’s no doctor

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Portable solar power

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,...

Women and guns

Sight and sound enhancement

Cold weather shooting considerations

Tailoring guns to females

Science

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

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

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?

Our energy crisis Part 2 — Nuclear energy is sensible and safe

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

Self-reliance is a mindset — A woman’s opinion

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising cattle on your own place

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

Self-Reliance

What to do when there’s no doctor

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Storing dry foods

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Farm and Garden

Grow some winter squash this year

By Lisa Nourse I love summertime — I love the green of the trees, the warm weather, and growing my own food. I especially love growing vegetables that will store well and provide that great...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I learned this first hand last summer as I discovered some...