Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Home Dairying

Animal disease traceability

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

Building

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

By Bob Van Putten Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 The native peoples of North America were a very practical lot. Over the centuries they developed some...

The house that Dorothy built

Install rafters alone the easy way

Woodbarrow

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Grandpa’s justice

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Pastoral bread

Homemade pizza

Vidalia Onion Pie

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Self-reliance

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Food security 101

The joys of making soap

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Energy

Making and using a solar cooker

Battery powered weekend retreat

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Just because

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...