Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

How safe is your electric fence?

By Eloise Twining I’ve used solar powered electric fencing on my California ranch for at least 35 years. Over that time electric fencing has proved...

Getting logs

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

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Our Unconventional House

Farm and Garden

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

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Three Raised Bed Designs

Love Those Green Beans

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The greatest American who was never President

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Italian Christmas bread

Ruth’s old-fashioned zucchini pickles

Salmon loaf

Boost your immune system with fast and easy fish dishes

Self-reliance

Avoiding heat illness

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Simplifying simplicity

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Solar power trailer Part 1

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...