Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

The homestead cat

Raising cattle on your own place

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Renovating old walls

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

The $1 Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

The greatest American who was never President

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Easy-to-make farmer’s cheese

Growing and Using Cilantro

Fig preserves

Crabapple jelly

Self-reliance

Medicinal uses of garlic

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Call me plumber

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Build a community assistance recharging station

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...