Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #172 • July/August, 2018 Like most young folks today, our son David graduated high school, got a job, and went to college...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

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

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Grandpa’s justice

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Italian Pot Roast

Pastoral bread

Turkey the old-fashioned way

Stuffed sweet peppers

Self-reliance

Cash in on your household junk

Homestead Helpers

Making a great rug from the rag bag

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Solar power trailer Part 2

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

How to select the right backup generator

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...