Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Is that a good pig?

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

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Rural Building

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

How to Install a Steel Roof

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Mid-season planting

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Currants and Gooseberries

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Remembering what grandma used

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts

Dragon’s breath chili

Boston Baked Beans

Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie

Self-reliance

Survival firebuilding skills

Woodstove cooking

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Grid-down battery devices

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Affordable firearms

Cold weather shooting considerations

Catch your own bait

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

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...