Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Finding the best dog for the country life

Once a day milking

Beekeeping basics

Building

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

By Bill Leonard Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 You can say a great deal in favor of cement block (or, if you prefer, concrete block) building....

Solar Building Design

The house that Dorothy built

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

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

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

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

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Grandpa’s justice

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Country-style Pork Stew

Baked chili relleno casserole

Hot Artichoke Dip

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Self-reliance

Call me plumber

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Dehydrating eggs at home

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Solar suitcase

Prepper power! Part 1

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

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...

Catch your own bait

The light at the end of the gun

Moderate power firearms

Affordable firearms

Science

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...