Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

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...

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Okra — Not Just for the South

The $1 Garden

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Fly it proudly and properly

Fried chicken for breakfast

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Mango Delight

Pastoral bread

Make your own nut butters

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Better wood heating

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Water pumping windmills

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Build your own battery charging station

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Just because

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...