Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Raising your own beef

Raising cattle on your own place

Once a day milking

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Building and using wattle fences

Small engine maintenance for women

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Installing a steel roof

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

The Best City Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Can your own tomato products

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Sweet Pickles

Cast iron loaf pans from breakfast to dessert

Self-reliance

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

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

Homemade skin care products

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

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

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Choose your ammo… police style

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...