Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

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

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising your own beef

Building

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 The thing I like the most about Backwoods Home is that, unlike a lot of other magazines,...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Never underestimate a woman

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Growing Strawberries

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Build a Keyhole Garden

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

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

The greatest American who was never President

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Venison Chili

Española eggs

Bread — The staff of life

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Self-reliance

Space heater safety tips

Breastfeeding — A primer

Survival infection control

Getting logs

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Build Your Own Car Wash

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

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...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

A brief history of health and medicine

The coming ice age

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment

Avoiding legal traps

Beautiful Women

Do rural homeowners need guns for self-defense?

Animals

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Bottle-raise a calf

By Jackie Clay Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 If you think milk and beef are expensive in the grocery store, then you should think about raising...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising Rabbits

Goat birthing and raising kids

Self-Reliance

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Caring for wounds in the field

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space each can fill, but in the types and quantities of...

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Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

By John Murray  Issue #158 • March/April, 2016 For country landowners who desire a way to supplement their income, operating a small roadside farm stand is an excellent business venture. Produce which is harvested on a...

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