Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Easy awnings

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 A window without an awning is like a lamp without a shade bare and glaring. In my...

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Propagating Plants

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Love Those Green Beans

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Making good jerky

Banana-Apricot Bars

Self-reliance

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Brood X

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Energy

Making and using a solar cooker

Solar power trailer Part 2

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Tailoring guns to females

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

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...