Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Where our farm animals come from

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Build a log crib

Make adobe bricks

A cabin for one

Build a chicken house in a day

Farm and Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Propagating Plants

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

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

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Bean-beef casserole

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Asparagus Pasta Salad

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Self-reliance

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Brood X

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

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Energy

Solar Food Drying

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Catch your own bait

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Reload your own brass

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...