Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Get to know your spiders

Goat birthing and raising kids

Once a day milking

Building

Renovating old walls

By David Lee Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Some years ago my wife and I were out searching for a new building lot when we fell...

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Building and stocking your pantry

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Tea for the garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

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

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Sourdough simplified

Tetsukabuto squash pie

Cajun-baked turnip

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Self-reliance

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Digging a shallow well

A young couple moves to the country

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Of guns and snakes

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...