Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Animal disease traceability

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Woodbarrow

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Blueberry Cash Crop

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

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

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

Waldorf salad

Making dandelions palatable

Aunt Mildred’s honey cake

Self-reliance

Life-saving snowshoes

Fully Involved

Getting logs

Swedish log candle

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Affordable firearms

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

The coming ice age

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

How big is the solar system?

Theories of the universe

Politics and Commentary

Avoiding legal traps

Finding solutions in firewood

Man vs. the machine

“Gun control” for dummies

Animals

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Slaughtering and Butchering

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising rabbits for profit

Self-Reliance

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Cast iron

Bartering for bad times

The community treasure chest

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests are needed because some plants prefer slightly acidic soil, while...

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Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some superb tomato plants, set them out on May 1 (or...

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