Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising your own beef for your family

Beekeeping basics

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Install rafters alone the easy way

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Testing Soil

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....

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Barmbrack

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Butterpeas

Canning meat plus how to use your canned meat

Self-reliance

Saving money on the homestead

The art of living in small spaces

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

An $89 backup generator

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

How to select the right backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

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

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Moderate power firearms

Big boomer guns

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...