Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

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

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Is that a good pig?

Building

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

By Armand O. Deblois Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Cold stored fruits and vegetables are the next best thing to fresh-picked. Flavor and texture change little...

Build a pallet fence

Make adobe bricks

Build a chicken tractor

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Growing the Eternal Tomato

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

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

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...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

A Native American feast

Six Chile Chicken

Boiled crawfish

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Self-reliance

Homemade skin care products

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Cleaning a well

Avoiding heat illness

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Solar suitcase

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Thoughts on ammunition

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...