Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Brooder in a box

Get to know your spiders

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

A river rock shower

Build a Groundhog Snare

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Build a Keyhole Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

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

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

The greatest American who was never President

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Duck with Mushrooms

Freeze a holiday turkey to enjoy it all year long

Green tomato kosher dill pickles

Apple ham salad

Self-reliance

Circle of friends

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Fully Involved

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Moderate power firearms

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...