Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Finding the best dog for the country life

Is that a good pig?

Raising Rabbits

Building

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

By Jennifer Poindexter Issue #157 • January/February, 2016 Since my family is homesteading on a budget, the task of building a greenhouse had to be done...

Building your chicken coop

Build your own log home in the woods

Easy awnings

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Growing and Using Peppers

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

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 barnyard scramble

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

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

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Spider rice casserole

Dill-onion bread

Cracklin’s — An irresistible snack that you can’t stop sneakin’

Breakfast Cereal

Self-reliance

The community treasure chest

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Homestead water

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Build a community assistance recharging station

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

How to shoot a handgun accurately

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...