Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Once a day milking

Raising your own beef for your family

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a log crib

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Fruit Trees

The Best City Garden

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...

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Apple Coffee Cake

Deconstructing a bowl of red

How to make kombucha

Canning Steelhead and Tuna

Self-reliance

Fully Involved

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Building and stocking your pantry

Tips for finding your affordable home

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Thoughts on ammunition

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

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...