Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

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

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

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

By Claire Wolfe Issue #76 • July/August, 2002 I awoke last night to a circle of moonlight reflected on a wall. It was so vivid I...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Small engine maintenance for women

Build your own portable forge

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Farm and Garden

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Propagating Plants

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

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...

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

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Eggplant salad

Hungry enough to eat a horse?

Chocolate Babka

Mango Delight

Self-reliance

Small camp security

Call me plumber

Survival storeroom

Cold process goat milk soap

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Energy class: Part 3

Grid-down battery devices

Is steam power in your future?

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...