Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Switch your family to goat’s milk

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

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Install rafters alone the easy way

By Robert L. Williams Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 Anyone who has ever worked on roof framing knows that nailing up rafters is a two-man job...

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

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Habeeb Salloum, 95, a poet, world traveler, linguist, and author of recipe books on Middle Eastern cuisine, has written recipe articles for Backwoods Home...

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

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Cold weather shooting considerations

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...

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

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The false argument about defending our freedom

Biological & chemical terrorism

Questions about global warming

Dealing with Liberals and History

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Keeping homestead animals healthy

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful tree in our small orchard I'd have to say it's...

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. These beneficial bacteria promote good digestive health, strengthen the immune...