Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Where our farm animals come from

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising Rabbits

Building

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Propagating Plants

Blueberry Cash Crop

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Middle Eastern breads

Algerian honeyed lamb kebabs

Apple and berry pies

Turkey Tetrazzini

Self-reliance

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Breastfeeding — A primer

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Energy

Energy class: Part 3

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Build your own battery charging station

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Women and guns

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...