Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Goat birthing and raising kids

Once a day milking

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Making and using a solar cooker

Farm and Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out....

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Slug Zapper

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Remembering what grandma used

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Honey Roasted Pheasant

Skillet Spanish rice

Smoked Salmon

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

Self-reliance

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Medicinal uses of garlic

Paring down for off-grid living

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...