Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Slaughtering and Butchering

The homestead cat

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

By Monika Williams Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 I am always trying to come up with different ways to utilize the small space I have to...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build a log crib

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

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

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Chow-chow

Self-reliance

Drawing the line on timber trespass

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Choosing a chain saw

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Solar-powered refrigerators

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Air power superiority

Of guns and snakes

The time for modern; the time for traditional

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...