Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Goat birthing and raising kids

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

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

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...

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

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;...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Buy your country place from the government

How to select the right backup generator

Add solar power to your truck camper

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

A brief history of health and medicine

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Running your own business: a mother’s perspective

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

Consider the trades when it comes to your future ability to make money

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

Where our farm animals come from

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

The art of living in small spaces

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the early spring. We tried it both ways for many years...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of groves of tall, leafy plants swaying gently through the air...