Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Once a day milking

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

How to Grow Garlic

Naughty Peppers

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Catfish Biscuits

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Butterpeas

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Four Pepper Pheasant

Self-reliance

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Homemade skin care products

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

City boy, country boy

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

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,...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Big boomer guns

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...