Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Home Dairying

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Once a day milking

Building

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 When I bought 10 dry barren "affordable" acres back in 1981 I got what I paid for: No...

Build a Composter

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Testing Soil

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The barnyard scramble

The vanishing outhouse

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Hungry enough to eat a horse?

Baklava

Easy-to-make farmer’s cheese

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Self-reliance

The art of living in small spaces

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Learning to love the high desert

Essential oils

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Hydronic woodstoves

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Just because

Thoughts on ammunition

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...