Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

By Robert Van Putten Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a rustic log cabin deep in the...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

A healthy heart starts in the kitchen

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

How we found our remote backwoods home

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

The chances of global disaster

A government with not enough to do, but lots of hungry mouths to feed

Next time you see me, don’t be afraid to say, ‘Hello.’

Getting rich through generosity

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

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

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising your own beef for your family

Finding the best dog for the country life

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

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

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 so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s basically a method of recycling junk wood to make a...