Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Get to know your spiders

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

By Jennifer Poindexter Issue #157 • January/February, 2016 Since my family is homesteading on a budget, the task of building a greenhouse had to be done...

Build a compost tumbler

Stairs — The next level

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Shelves and benches

Farm and Garden

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Propagating Grapes

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

The greatest American who was never President

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Elissaburgettes

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Bean Salad With Fresh Herbs

Self-reliance

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Take care of your knife

The accidental homesteader

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Millenium Vehicles

Power your bug-out bag

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Reload your own brass

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...