Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Goat birthing and raising kids

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Once a day milking

Building

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

By Armand O. Deblois Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Cold stored fruits and vegetables are the next best thing to fresh-picked. Flavor and texture change little...

Easy awnings

Making and using a solar cooker

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

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Love Those Green Beans

Tea for the garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

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...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Fly it proudly and properly

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Pecan Crusted Trout

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Self-reliance

How we found our remote backwoods home

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Garden injuries

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Energy

Solar Building Design

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Generators alone are not enough

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Air power superiority

When a well-placed shot is required, when stealth and quiet are called for, an air rifle may be the best option. By Gary Lewis Issue #151 • January/February,...

Women and guns

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Tailoring guns to females

Reload your own brass

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...