Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Goat birthing and raising kids

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Choosing a chain saw

Build a Groundhog Snare

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

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

Growing Microgreens

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

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Constitution of the united States of America

Catfish Biscuits

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Ashe Torsh

Corn cob jelly

Four Pepper Pheasant

Canning meat plus how to use your canned meat

Self-reliance

Raising kids simply

Cold process goat milk soap

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...