Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

Choosing a chain saw

By Steven Gregersen Issue #119 •September/October, 2009 Winter will be here soon and along with winter comes cold weather and high heating bills. Obviously there's nothing...

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

The house that Dorothy built

New invention— The Fencerunner

Farm and Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Gardening for Treasure

How to Grow Great Carrots

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Ruth’s old-fashioned zucchini pickles

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

Hummingbird Cake

Deconstructing a bowl of red

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

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

Paring down for off-grid living

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Build a community assistance recharging station

Energy class: Part 3

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...