Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Raising Rabbits

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

By Steve Maxwell How many times have you built an outdoor project out of wood, only to be disappointed by the deterioration that hit after...

Never underestimate a woman

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

A simple backwoods hay baler

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Victory Gardens

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Twice Cooked Pork

Dill-onion bread

Hearty stews for the soul

Lenie in the kitchen: Hamburger and potato casserole

Self-reliance

Brood X

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Cash in on your household junk

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Build a community assistance recharging station

Power-up bag

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Thoughts on ammunition

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Sight and sound enhancement

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

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...