Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Naughty Peppers

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Sweet Potato Greens

Americana and History

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Keep the Ice On

Grandma’s persimmon pudding

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Start your food storage on $10 a week

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Flea market stories and strategies

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Solar-powered chicken coop

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Women and guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...