Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Adventures with a portable sawmill

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The greatest American who was never President

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Is steam power in your future?

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

By O. E. MacDougal January/February 2016, Backwoods Home Most people don’t know that we’re currently in an ice age and have been for the last 2.58...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Let’s stop apologizing for guns

The Informed Juror — How an informed jury helps safeguard liberty

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....

Goat birthing and raising kids

By Jackie Clay Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 Dairy goats form one of the cornerstones of our homestead. Not only do they provide milk, cheese, ice...

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

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs from a cold frame in that it has an internal...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the Fall

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between our fingers. And so, while most avid gardeners let Mother...