Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

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

The homestead cat

Animal disease traceability

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...

Build Your Own Car Wash

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

The Forever Floor

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Slug Zapper

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Americana and History

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

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Remembering what grandma used

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Black Beans & Rice

Canning 101 — Pickles, fruits, jams, jellies, etc.

Humble stew

Honey whole wheat bread

Self-reliance

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Turn your passion into a business

Pump water for free

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

Energy

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

Solar suitcase

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Solar power for farm and ranch

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

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

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...