Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Slaughtering and Butchering

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

How safe is your electric fence?

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build a barrel stove

Farm and Garden

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,...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

The summer of ’35

The barnyard scramble

Constitution of the united States of America

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Chicken Saltimbocca with Escarole

Sweet potato pudding

Dill-onion bread

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Self-reliance

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Foraging for wild berries

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Solar power for farm and ranch

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Of guns and snakes

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...