Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Animal disease traceability

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Shelves and benches

By David Lee Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Money doesn't buy happiness but it sure does buy a lot of stuff. If it is nice stuff...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build Your Own Car Wash

Build a lean-to greenhouse

The Forever Floor

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Growing Productive Strawberries

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Grandpa’s justice

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Liver Fricassee

Fried tuna patties

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

Cajun-baked turnip

Self-reliance

The wonderful world of axes

Foraging for wild berries

A guide to buying silver and gold

Garden injuries Part 2

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Waterpower for personal use

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Of guns and snakes

Canning game meat

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

How big a gun do you need?

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

A brief history of health and medicine

The many benefits of garlic

Science and truth. Are they related?

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

Reflections on the Second Amendment

My View: Learn to Do One Thing Well

Running your own business: a mother’s perspective

The current ‘Gun control’ push — A cop’s eye view