Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Once a day milking

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

Building

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

By Dana Martin Batory Issue #84 • November/December, 2003 Sometimes it seems two hands are not enough—three would be nice, four even better. This economical, easy...

Build a chicken house in a day

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Tea for the garden

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

Build a Keyhole Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Fly it proudly and properly

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Butterpeas

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Fermented dill pickles

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Self-reliance

Flea market stories and strategies

Take care of your knife

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...