Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising cattle on your own place

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

Building and using wattle fences

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

How we found our remote backwoods home

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...

We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment

Terrorism in America — The armed citizen’s view

Which is better, a small town or city?

Defending against terroristic mass murder

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Is that a good pig?

By Kim Dieter Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 Lean ham, roasts, chops, savory sausage, and thick slices of bacon are the reason pigs are raised at...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....