Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build your own repeating mouse trap

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...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Emergency solar power for $950

Generators alone are not enough

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

Choose your ammo… police style

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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...

A brief history of health and medicine

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Do we need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights?

The logic behind term limits and a historical perspective

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Beekeeping basics

Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Bees have been managed for their honey production for about 5000 years or so. Especially for the...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

10 ways to make money on your land

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything you could need and with online shopping, you don’t even...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....