Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Raising rabbits for profit

Goat birthing and raising kids

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

By Armand O. Deblois Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Cold stored fruits and vegetables are the next best thing to fresh-picked. Flavor and texture change little...

Build your own log home in the woods

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Install rafters alone the easy way

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Saving Seeds

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Mid-season planting

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Tabbouleh

Self-reliance

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

Drive your own freshwater well

Tale of a country family

Cast iron

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...