Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

The homestead cat

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Woodbarrow

A simple backwoods hay baler

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Plant Once Harvest for Years

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

How to Grow Garlic

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Fly it proudly and properly

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

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

Red flannel hash

Chicken and dumpling stew

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Self-reliance

Survival/utility vest

Choosing a chain saw

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Energy

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

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Tailoring guns to females

Building the coyote rifle

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...