Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

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

Once a day milking

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

Woodbarrow

Build Your Own Hoop House

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

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

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Growing Microgreens

How to Grow Garlic

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Grandpa’s justice

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Successful cold storage

Basic chicken broth

Lenie in the kitchen: Hamburger and potato casserole

Self-reliance

Swedish log candle

Cold process goat milk soap

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Storing dry foods

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Affordable firearms

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...