Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

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

Get to know your spiders

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Gabion walls for form and function

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Install rafters alone the easy way

Make adobe bricks

Farm and Garden

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement...

How to Grow Potatoes

Growing and Using Peppers

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

The $1 Garden

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The time-travel ad

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Honey whole wheat bread

Wheat

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Terrific tamale pie

Self-reliance

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

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

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

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Energy

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

An $89 backup generator

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

How big a gun do you need?

Of guns and snakes

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

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...