Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

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

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

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build a stone wall

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

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Growing Productive Strawberries

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Pruning Blueberries

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...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The vanishing outhouse

The barnyard scramble

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Italian Pot Roast

Nanny B’s benne bake

Honey Roasted Pheasant

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Self-reliance

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Preparing for civil unrest

Woodstove cooking

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Women and guns

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...