Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Good-bye old friend

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

A cabin for one

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

A house a tornado helped build

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

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

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Pasteurizing milk

Dehydrating food

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Persimmon cookies

Self-reliance

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Preparedness for travelers

City boy, country boy

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Energy

Solar hot water systems

Power-up bag

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...