Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

The homestead cat

Once a day milking

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

Build a deluxe barrel stove

The Forever Floor

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

The Homestead Greenhouse

Naughty Peppers

Build a Keyhole Garden

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

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

The summer of ’35

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Waldorf salad

Stuffed sweet peppers

Asparagus Pasta Salad

Self-reliance

Garden injuries

I heat my house by burning corn

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

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

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Picking a holster

Women and guns

Tailoring guns to females

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

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...