Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising your own beef

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Easy awnings

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Slug Zapper

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Dishpan cookies

Lazy housewife pickles

Orange Chiffon Cake

Pickled chili peppers

Self-reliance

Buying a used mobile home

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Solar-powered refrigerators

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Thoughts on ammunition

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...