Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

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

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Gabion walls for form and function

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

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

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

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...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The ‘Curious Guy’ and the ‘Offended Woman’

How America can be saved from stupid people

Getting rich through generosity

Training for the Boston Marathon

Goat birthing and raising kids

By Jackie Clay Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 Dairy goats form one of the cornerstones of our homestead. Not only do they provide milk, cheese, ice...

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

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Where our farm animals come from

Raising cattle on your own place

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

Drive your own freshwater well

Homeschooling through high school

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy to store. Garlic is one of the most commonly used...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw parched earth without a scrap of green anywhere. Corn withered...