Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Build a Composter

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

How to Grow Potatoes

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The time-travel ad

Constitution of the united States of America

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Blueberry tofu frappe

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help

Lenie in the kitchen: Hamburger and potato casserole

Self-reliance

Life-saving snowshoes

No dentist? Oh, no!

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Energy

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Energy class: Part 1

Solar-powered water purifiers

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

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 —...