Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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...

How safe is your electric fence?

How to Grow Great Carrots

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 Carrots are an old-time homesteader favorite. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated, or simply stored in a cool...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Picking and preserving the wild plum

The convenience of a bread bucket

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

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

Cold weather shooting considerations

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...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Planning the lives of generations to come

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

Concealed carry laws reduce crime

Personal guns getting to be in style

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

By John Silveira Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 What would happen if all the honeybees disappeared? According to some pundits we'd see a collapse in much...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

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

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between our fingers. And so, while most avid gardeners let Mother...

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 before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....