Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

New invention— The Fencerunner

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

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

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

Constitution of the united States of America

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

How we found our remote backwoods home

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Finally, a disaster that is guaranteed!

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

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

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but you can grow a home "backyard" orchard of oranges, lemons,...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...