Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising cattle on your own place

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...

Rural Building

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

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Farm and Garden

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Katelynn Bond Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 One of the hazards of living on the side of a mountain in northern New Mexico is that...

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Growing Strawberries

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

The barnyard scramble

Catfish Biscuits

Remembering what grandma used

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Can your own tomato products

Honey Roasted Pheasant

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Blanching vegetables

Self-reliance

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Food security 101: part 2

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

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

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Moderate power firearms

The light at the end of the gun

Picking a holster

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...