Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef

Goat birthing and raising kids

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

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Solar Building Design

By Steven Heckeroth Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Solar building design has been used since ancient times. In the more recent past, it has been more...

How to maintain a dirt road

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

How to Install a Steel Roof

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Tea for the garden

Fruit Trees

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Americana and History

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...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Fly it proudly and properly

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

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Zucchini casserole

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Self-reliance

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Energy

Solar Food Drying

Solar power trailer Part 1

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Use the right ammunition!

The time for modern; the time for traditional

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...