Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Raising cattle on your own place

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

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

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Tomato-Avocado-Buttermilk Soup

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Paring down for off-grid living

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

How to select the right backup generator

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

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,...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Introducing the international tax cartel

How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it

A reason for the Second Amendment

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

By Karen McGeorge Sanders Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 It seems that farmers always need an extra pair of hands, but finding the money to pay...

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

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Cash in on your household junk

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

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

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop. After all, they give us a wide variety of products. Many...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw parched earth without a scrap of green anywhere. Corn withered...