Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

A contrary guide to feeding animals

The homestead cat

Building

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

By Martin Harris Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 When you strip away all the frills, building construction is nothing more than enclosing a volume of space...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build a chicken house in a day

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

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...

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The greatest American who was never President

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Food security 101: part 2 — Convenience mixes make life easier

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

Baklava

Dishpan cookies

Self-reliance

A guide to buying silver and gold

Cash in on your household junk

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Buying the right emergency radio

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Power-up bag

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Of guns and snakes

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Choose your ammo… police style

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

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...