Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Animal disease traceability

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The homesteading lifestyle can require a number of tools to cultivate the garden, maintain the home, repair the...

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Build a log crib

Build a chicken tractor

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Farm and Garden

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

The barnyard scramble

Grandpa’s justice

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

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

Food and recipes

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Chocolate Babka

Uncooked Peanut-butter Candy

Making Yogurt

Self-reliance

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Start a fire in any weather

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Energy class: Part 1

Battery powered weekend retreat

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Just because

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...