Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Sweet Potato Greens

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Gourmet nutrition with beans and rice

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...

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

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

That old survivalist mumbo jumbo and 10 reasons why it makes sense

Reaching for the stars during a recession

The false argument about defending our freedom

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising your own beef for your family

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I parked, walked quickly into the house, and said to my...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...