Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building and stocking your pantry

By Jackie Clay Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 At the turn of the 19th century, most country homes had a walk-in pantry, as well as a...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Katelynn Bond Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 One of the hazards of living on the side of a mountain in northern New Mexico is that...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Tahini — A health food par-excellence

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

How to select the right backup generator

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...

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

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Every group needs a black sheep

Looking back on 20 years of BHM

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...

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw parched earth without a scrap of green anywhere. Corn withered...

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we moved to New Mexico, it was in late June and...