Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

Building and stocking your pantry

How safe is your electric fence?

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

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...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food security 101: part 2 — Convenience mixes make life easier

The real “Q” — Barbecue the way it’s supposed to be

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

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

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

What kind of Americans sit on our juries?

Planning the lives of generations to come

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

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,"...

Finding the best dog for the country life

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

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

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 tree growing method of the Greco-Roman world. Later, during the...

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki variety. Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 There's not one of us who...