Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising your own beef for your family

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

By Monika Williams Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 I am always trying to come up with different ways to utilize the small space I have to...

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

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

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

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

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

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

How to shoot a handgun accurately

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

The Informed Juror — How an informed jury helps safeguard liberty

Understanding the gun debate, part 2

An American dollar worth two cents

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

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,"...

Raising your own beef for your family

Where our farm animals come from

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers and cucumbers thrown in. But a whole lot of folks,...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to play video games at the mall. And one of the...