Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

New invention— The Fencerunner

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The greatest American who was never President

Pistachios — Historic and healthy nuts

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

10 ways to make money on your land

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise a good portion of their own food. But how many...

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space each can fill, but in the types and quantities of...