Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Home Dairying

Brooder in a box

Building

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Victory Gardens

Testing Soil

Growing Strawberries

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Food and recipes

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

Turkey the old-fashioned way

Braised venison pepper steak

Self-reliance

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

There’s no such thing as free land!

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Woodstove cooking

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Keep the Ice On

Solar-powered water purifiers

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Picking a holster

Reload your own brass

Building the coyote rifle

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...