Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

Switch your family to goat’s milk

The homestead cat

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

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Shake update

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build a stone wall

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Farm and Garden

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

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;...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Salmon loaf

Jambalaya stew

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Bath herbs

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Energy

Energy class: Part 3

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Solar power for farm and ranch

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

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