Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Keeping homestead animals healthy

A salvaged oak floor for $5

By Robert L. Williams Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 Several months ago we decided we did not want to install a traditional bedroom floor of plywood...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a wood crib with free materials

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

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

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The greatest American who was never President

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

How to select the right backup generator

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Three honest words: “I don’t know”

Justice Breyer is wrong about the 2nd Amendment

Book Review: Guns Save Lives — True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives with Firearms

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Caring for wounds in the field

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s basically a method of recycling junk wood to make a...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved Water Quality, You...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....