Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Shake update

Building and using wattle fences

Farm and Garden

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh...

Love Those Green Beans

Currants and Gooseberries

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

How to Grow Garlic

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Black Bean and Avocado Dip

Cajun-baked turnip

Fermented dill pickles

Self-reliance

Building and stocking your pantry

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Digging a shallow well

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Energy

Solar hot water systems

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

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

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Big boomer guns

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

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...