Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Home Dairying

The homestead cat

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

Building and stocking your pantry

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

The greatest American who was never President

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Catfish Biscuits

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Aunt Mildred’s honey cake

Orange Chiffon Cake

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Self-reliance

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

City boy, country boy

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

Energy

Battery powered weekend retreat

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

An $89 backup generator

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms — Tools of rural living

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

How big a gun do you need?

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...