Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Goat birthing and raising kids

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Sweet Potato Greens

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

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...

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

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Turn your passion into a business

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Battery powered weekend retreat

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...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

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...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Homemade bread: a metaphor for life

Losing our rights as we watch television

Animal rights loonies save the chickens but ruin the County Fair

Every group needs a black sheep

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Once a day milking

By Patrice Lewis Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 It sounds bucolic, doesn't it? The simple joys of milking your own cow. Fresh milk, fresh cream, homemade...

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

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise a good portion of their own food. But how many...

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s basically a method of recycling junk wood to make a...