Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising Rabbits

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

Switch your family to goat’s milk

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

A house a tornado helped build

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

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....

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Gardening for Treasure

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

The greatest American who was never President

Grandpa’s justice

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Potato soup

Heart healthy recipes

Spiced red beans

Uncooked Peanut-butter Candy

Self-reliance

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

10 country do’s and don’ts

Tale of a country family

Energy

Portable solar power

Solar power for farm and ranch

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Air power superiority

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...