Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

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

By Claire Wolfe Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 December 2012. Welcome to my house as I first saw it. The door opens onto a dirt-floored room. It's...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home,...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Avoiding common canning mistakes

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Emergency solar power for $950

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Add solar power to your truck camper

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Every group needs a black sheep

Getting the state out of marriage

Turn the poor into capitalists

Defunding government is a sensible voter solution to reining in local government

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

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...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Turn your passion into a business

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet. These beneficial bacteria promote good digestive health, strengthen the immune...

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries native to Europe and North America, along with some developed...