Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Slaughtering and Butchering

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Build a barrel stove

Renovating old walls

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Farm and Garden

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Love Those Green Beans

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Remembering what grandma used

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Mac’s lamb curry bake

You can safely and easily can your own meat

Garlic – the glorious bulb

Indian Fry Bread

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Energy

Job site solar power

Build a community assistance recharging station

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Build your own battery charging station

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...