Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Once a day milking

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Raising your own beef

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

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

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Tea for the garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Remembering what grandma used

The time-travel ad

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Oregon Grape Jam

Zucchini casserole

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Make grape juice the easy way

Self-reliance

Cleaning a well

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

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Energy

An $89 backup generator

Hydronic woodstoves

Keep the Ice On

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...