Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

Once a day milking

Home Dairying

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

The house that Dorothy built

Build Your Own Hoop House

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

How to Grow Potatoes

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;...

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

Constitution of the united States of America

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Goat milk recipes

Braised rabbit with red wine

Demystifying real rye bread

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Self-reliance

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Wash day

Paring down for off-grid living

Buy your country place from the government

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Solar hot water systems

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Affordable firearms

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...