Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Once a day milking

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Building

Easy awnings

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 A window without an awning is like a lamp without a shade bare and glaring. In my...

Renovating old walls

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build a compost tumbler

Installing a steel roof

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Tracing a bean

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

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

Remembering what grandma used

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Elissaburgettes

Moroccan mint tea

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

10 country do’s and don’ts

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Women and guns

How big a gun do you need?

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...