Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Goat birthing and raising kids

Home Dairying

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

Building

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

Build a log crib

Stairs — The next level

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Farm and Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans...

How to Grow Garlic

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

The Potato Hole

Testing Soil

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Easy-to-make farmer’s cheese

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Black beans and rice

Vidalia Onion Pie

Self-reliance

How to maintain your chimney

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Garden injuries

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

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

Millenium Vehicles

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Catch your own bait

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

By O.E. MacDougal May/June 2018, Backwoods Home Every second of every day about 26,000 cups of coffee are drunk around the world. That’s about 2¼ billion...