Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Raising your own beef

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Building and stocking your pantry

New invention— The Fencerunner

Building Eric’s house

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned hot chocolate

Fudge macaroon pie

Broiled fish fillet with piri piri sauce

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Self-reliance

Homestead helpers

Earning money from home

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Job site solar power

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

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Moderate power firearms

Picking a holster

Building the coyote rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

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...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

The world is ending! … Again?

Theories of the universe

Politics and Commentary

Lessons for My Children…Chapter 3: Hiding from the government

My View: Three Cheers for Free Enterprise

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

The rationale of the automatic rifle