Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Build a deluxe barrel stove

By David Lee Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Winter is coming again, pretty much on schedule in spite of global warming, and it will be cold,...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Building and using wattle fences

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

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

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

How to select the right backup generator

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

Planning the lives of generations to come

Getting the state out of marriage

Can an understanding of math and statistics save America’s freedoms?

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

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

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only in fooling those pesky pests who thrive on fruits and...

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet. These beneficial bacteria promote good digestive health, strengthen the immune...