Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Goat birthing and raising kids

Animal disease traceability

Home Dairying

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...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build Your Own Car Wash

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Building a $3,000 Barn

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Tracing a bean

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The barnyard scramble

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Food and recipes

Blonde brownies

Blueberry wine jam

Dishpan cookies

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Self-reliance

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Digging a shallow well

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Power-up bag

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...