Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

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

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 Productive Strawberries

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

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

The greatest American who was never President

Drawing the line on timber trespass

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

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

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...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

The light at the end of the gun

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Why oil and other fossil fuels are good

Planning the lives of generations to come

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

Defending against terroristic mass murder

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising cattle on your own place

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Tips for finding your affordable home

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in Newport, Oregon, and noticed a little Chinese lady flipping over...