Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

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

Home Dairying

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

A river rock shower

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 The finished shower weighs a ton and cost about $800. Cultured stones, made of pumice and portland cement, weigh about...

Building your chicken coop

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Growing Microgreens

By Lisa Nourse Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic...

How to Grow Great Carrots

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Grandpa’s justice

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Making Yogurt

Kentucky Country Ribs

Sorrento Salad

Self-reliance

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Is steam power in your future?

Job site solar power

Making and using a solar cooker

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...