Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

Raising your own beef for your family

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

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...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

A brief history of health and medicine

Which is better, a small town or city?

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

Goodbye TV, hello constructive time

Losing our rights as we watch television

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Caring for wounds in the field

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...

Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I have a lot of "old reliable" varieties that I grow...