Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

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

Build a chicken tractor

By Connie Rabun Issue #127 • January/February, 2011 In the beginning we had chickens...and no coop! Any homesteader knows that the number one rule is to...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Adventures with a portable sawmill

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...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

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...

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

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

The time for modern; the time for traditional

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Can the U.N. Ban America’s Guns?

Terrorism in America — The armed citizen’s view

Raising cattle on your own place

By Charles Sanders Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Winter won't last forever. It won't be long before spring will arrive and pastures will start to green...

Beekeeping basics

Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Bees have been managed for their honey production for about 5000 years or so. Especially for the...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

10 ways to make money on your land

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Flea market stories and strategies

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together so fiercely as we did during World War II. We...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful tree in our small orchard I'd have to say it's...