Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

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

Building

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

By Robert Van Putten Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 My wife and I built our homestead by hand. I’m not a professional builder, so once in...

Woodbarrow

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Renovating old walls

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The greatest American who was never President

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Never too busy to make bread

Indian Pudding

Canning chickens for the pantry

Bread — The staff of life

Self-reliance

What to do when there’s no doctor

Turn your passion into a business

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Reload your own brass

Just because

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Tailoring guns to females

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...