Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising cattle on your own place

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

Easy awnings

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

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

The summer of ’35

The barnyard scramble

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Venison Chili

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Shiitake mushrooms

The wonderful world of lavender

Self-reliance

Survival storeroom

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

There’s no such thing as free land!

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Energy

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Keep the Ice On

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Big boomer guns

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Just because

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...