Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Once a day milking

Bovine basics for beginners

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Building and stocking your pantry

By Jackie Clay Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 At the turn of the 19th century, most country homes had a walk-in pantry, as well as a...

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Claw Hammers

Build Your Own Hoop House

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Growing Microgreens

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Mid-season planting

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...

Grandpa’s justice

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

The vanishing outhouse

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

Food and recipes

Raspberry chocolate torte

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Brew your own root beer

A healthy heart starts in the kitchen

Self-reliance

10 ways to make money on your land

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Dehydrating eggs at home

Buying the right emergency radio

Energy

Job site solar power

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Affordable firearms

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...