Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

The homestead cat

Slaughtering and Butchering

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

The vanishing outhouse

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Fly it proudly and properly

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Make sourdough with wild yeast

The convenience of a bread bucket

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Home canning safety tips

Self-reliance

Survival storeroom

A worthwhile journey

Buy your country place from the government

Defeating debt

Energy

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Tailoring guns to females

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

Big boomer guns

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...