Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Animal disease traceability

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Finding the best dog for the country life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

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

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Install rafters alone the easy way

Farm and Garden

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...

Sweet Potato Greens

Build a Keyhole Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

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

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Hearty breakfast fillets

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Cookies in a jar

Self-reliance

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

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

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Build a community assistance recharging station

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Reload your own brass

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...