Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Animal disease traceability

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Home Dairying

Building

Gabion walls for form and function

By Joe Mooney Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 I think there has to be something ingrained in the human brain that loves things built of stone....

Build a pallet fence

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a stone wall

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Currants and Gooseberries

Fruit Trees

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Making baby food at home

Sweet & Sour Cabbage

Bob’s basic breads for beginners, bachelors, barbarians, and backwoodsmen

Italian Pot Roast

Self-reliance

Space heater safety tips

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

The fire wick fire starter

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

Energy

Solar suitcase

Emergency solar power for $950

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Just because

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Building the coyote rifle

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...