Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Raising rabbits for profit

Get to know your spiders

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

The house that Dorothy built

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 This isn't the first time we've had an article by and about...

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Stairs — The next level

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build a stone wall

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Peppers

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Home-Grown Eggs

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

The summer of ’35

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Texas Fireballs By Randy Young

Freeze a holiday turkey to enjoy it all year long

Root vegetable casserole

Sourdough simplified

Self-reliance

What to do when there’s no doctor

Stay clear of young wild animals

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Homestead water

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Solar Building Design

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...