Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Goat birthing and raising kids

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Elegant desserts for entertaining

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Body language and threat recognition

A vast cultural divide exists between environmentalists and gun owners

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Cash in on your household junk

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding and productive fruits I can grow in our Zone 2...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of groves of tall, leafy plants swaying gently through the air...