Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

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

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

By Robert E. Kramer Issue #42 • November/December, 1996 Materials 1 propane or butane torch or campfire to heat up metal rod. 1 steel rod at...

Building and stocking your pantry

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build Your Own Car Wash

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

The barnyard scramble

Fly it proudly and properly

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Persimmon bread

Apple and Potato Soup

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Self-reliance

How we found our remote backwoods home

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Advice from second-time homesteaders

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Energy

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Emergency solar power for $950

Keep the Ice On

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Just because

Choose your ammo… police style

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...