Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

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

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Small engine maintenance for women

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the...

Build a Keyhole Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Remembering what grandma used

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Keep the Ice On

Kids in the Kitchen

Lemon-Tarragon Veal

Self-reliance

Storing dry foods

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Making apple pectin

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Energy

Power Up

An $89 backup generator

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Prepper power! Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...