Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Is that a good pig?

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

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Three Raised Bed Designs

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

How to Grow Great Carrots

Propagating Plants

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Grandma’s persimmon pudding

Skillet Spanish rice

Oregon Grape Jam

Galumbki

Self-reliance

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Paring down for off-grid living

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

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Build your own battery charging station

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...