Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Bovine basics for beginners

Raising cattle on your own place

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

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....

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Easy awnings

A river rock shower

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Farm and Garden

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The barnyard scramble

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

Food and recipes

Growing and Using Cilantro

Hot Artichoke Dip

Spiced red beans

Persimmon cookies

Self-reliance

Space heater safety tips

Wash day

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

The fire wick fire starter

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Solar-powered chicken coop

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Moderate power firearms

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...