Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Home Dairying

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build your own log home in the woods

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

Jackie’s Garden Primer

By Jackie Clay Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 The birds are singing. The sunshine makes the day feel soft and warm. The soil is mellow and...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Grow some winter squash this year

The Home Citrus Orchard

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Broccoli-Turkey Casserole

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help

Self-reliance

City boy, country boy

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

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

Homestead water

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Solar-powered water purifiers

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

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...

Building the coyote rifle

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

The light at the end of the gun

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...