Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Get to know your spiders

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Building a $3,000 Barn

Building and stocking your pantry

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Currants and Gooseberries

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Companion Planting

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Picnicking with class!

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Pecan Crusted Trout

Self-reliance

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Hydronic woodstoves

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...