Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

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

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build a ski sled

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

Propagating Grapes

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Naughty Peppers

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

The time-travel ad

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Indian Pudding

Green Shrimp Soup

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Self-reliance

Survival storeroom

Fire resistant property

The joys of making soap

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Prepper power! Part 1

Battery powered weekend retreat

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

The Appleseed Project

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Canning game meat

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...