Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

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

Bovine basics for beginners

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Never underestimate a woman

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Saving Seeds

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Constitution of the united States of America

The vanishing outhouse

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Herbed cheese

Toffee Bars, Maple Kisses, and Chocolate-Nut Cloud Candy

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

Succulent venison stew

Self-reliance

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Preparing for winter

Energy

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

How big a gun do you need?

Just because

Picking a holster

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Testing Soil

Politics and Commentary

How to achieve affordable health care

Armed civilians can help fight terrorism

My View: Grand Theory vs. Stark Reality

The false argument about defending our freedom