Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

The homestead cat

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Brooder in a box

Building

Build a portable woodstove for $30

By David Scott Matthews Issue #78 • November/December, 2002 I had a problem. Other men love football, baseball, basketball, or golf. I love to hunt. And...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Making and using a solar cooker

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

By Joe Mooney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 I've always found the use of seasonal rains by native peoples very fascinating. From the diversion of floodwaters...

Currants and Gooseberries

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

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...

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Catfish Biscuits

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Tomato and coriander salad

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Self-reliance

Turn your passion into a business

Building and stocking your pantry

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Dim bulbs in California

Solar hot water systems

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...