Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

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

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....

Getting logs

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Growing Strawberries

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Constitution of the united States of America

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Food and recipes

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Whole grain breads baked at home

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Turning to turmeric

Self-reliance

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Clean up your act!

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

Avoiding heat illness

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Solar power trailer Part 1

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Prepper power! Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...