Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Is that a good pig?

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

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

Building

Shelves and benches

By David Lee Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Money doesn't buy happiness but it sure does buy a lot of stuff. If it is nice stuff...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Spicy Beef

Stuffed Mushrooms – Greek Style

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Self-reliance

Dehydrating eggs at home

Swedish log candle

Call me plumber

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Air power superiority

Women and guns

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...