Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

Is that a good pig?

Home Dairying

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

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

By Claire Wolfe Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 December 2012. Welcome to my house as I first saw it. The door opens onto a dirt-floored room. It's...

Build a chicken house in a day

How to Install a Steel Roof

Our Unconventional House

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Fruit Trees

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;...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Homemade pizza

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Making sausage

Self-reliance

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Preparing for civil unrest

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Energy

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Millenium Vehicles

Battery powered weekend retreat

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...