Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Rural Building

Claw Hammers

Renovating old walls

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Growing and Using Peppers

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Grandpa’s justice

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The summer of ’35

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

The real “Q” — Barbecue the way it’s supposed to be

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Danish Meat Balls

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes

Self-reliance

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Dehydrating eggs at home

Energy

Emergency solar power for $950

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

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

The Appleseed Project

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Picking a holster

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

A brief history of health and medicine

The coming ice age

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

Confessions of a former liberal

Climate Change Theory: science or religion?

Dealing with Liberals and History

Do we need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights?

Animals

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Bottle-raise a calf

By Jackie Clay Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 If you think milk and beef are expensive in the grocery store, then you should think about raising...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Beekeeping basics

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Self-Reliance

Make a quilt out of Levis

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Caveman walking stick

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Farm and Garden

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one, Grandpa!" With those words of warning he dropped another gunny...

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Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold weather hits. Visions of blowing and drifting snow swirl in...

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