Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

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

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Learning to love the high desert

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

A history lesson from Ayn Rand

My View: Jury duty: The charge was rape

Our energy crisis Part 1 — It’s our creation, but we can fix it

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

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Keeping homestead animals healthy

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better, more efficient way to perform chores, especially chores that reoccurred...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic without having to hover over it, hoping that it produces....