Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

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

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Get to know your spiders

Building

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Getting logs

Build a barrel stove

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Blueberry Cash Crop

Propagating Plants

Tracing a bean

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....

Fly it proudly and properly

Constitution of the united States of America

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned baked beans

Breakfast Cereal

Hot Artichoke Dip

Butterpeas

Self-reliance

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Battery powered weekend retreat

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Canning game meat

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...