Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Finding the best dog for the country life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Once a day milking

Building

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build a pizza oven

Build a portable woodstove for $30

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Texas Fireballs By Randy Young

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Self-reliance

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Wash day

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Bugging out in place

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Hydronic woodstoves

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Picking a holster

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...