Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Once a day milking

Raising your own beef

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

A river rock shower

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 The finished shower weighs a ton and cost about $800. Cultured stones, made of pumice and portland cement, weigh about...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build Your Own Car Wash

Building your chicken coop

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Grow some winter squash this year

Tea for the garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

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

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Cajun-baked turnip

Baked Bean Soup

Sweet potato pudding

Jo’s Kentucky-fried cole slaw

Self-reliance

Storing dry foods

Buying a used mobile home

Stay clear of young wild animals

Cash in on your household junk

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Build a community assistance recharging station

Making and using a solar cooker

Millenium Vehicles

Guns and Hunting

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Canning game meat

Choose your ammo… police style

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...