Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Home Dairying

Is that a good pig?

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Build a Composter

Farm and Garden

Grow some winter squash this year

By Lisa Nourse I love summertime — I love the green of the trees, the warm weather, and growing my own food. I especially love...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Growing Productive Strawberries

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The barnyard scramble

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Six Chile Chicken

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Stuffed Mushrooms – Greek Style

Self-reliance

Avoiding heat illness

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Energy

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Solar Food Drying

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...