Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Redworm farming

Where our farm animals come from

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Home Dairying

Building

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

A simple backwoods hay baler

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The vanishing outhouse

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Food and recipes

Making sausage

Raspberry Pears with Chocolate Sauce

Pear honey

Braised rabbit with red wine

Self-reliance

Homestead Helpers

Shopping to beat inflation

Homeschooling through high school

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Grid-down battery devices

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

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Moderate power firearms

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Reload your own brass

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...