Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The homesteading lifestyle can require a number of tools to cultivate the garden, maintain the home, repair the...

Shake update

Build a wood crib with free materials

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

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...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Growing Microgreens

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

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

Food and recipes

Gather rose hips for health

Kentucky Country Ribs

Cheesy fish chowder

Boost your immune system with fast and easy fish dishes

Self-reliance

Defeating debt

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Homemade skin care products

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Energy

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

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

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...