Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

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

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

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...

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Build a Trail

Building your chicken coop

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Growing and Using Peppers

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The summer of ’35

The time-travel ad

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

Raspberry ketchup

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Solar power for farm and ranch

Grid-down battery devices

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

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...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...