Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef

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

Home Dairying

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

By Don Lewis In 1874, a United States patent (#157,124) was issued to Joseph F. Glidden, a long-serving sheriff in DeKalb County, Illinois. His invention...

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build a log crib

Build a pallet fence

Install rafters alone the easy way

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Catfish Biscuits

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Crabapple jelly

Zucchini custard pie

Self-reliance

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Make a quilt out of Levis

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Affordable firearms

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...