Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Animal disease traceability

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 Composter

Shake update

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of...

Propagating Plants

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

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...

Catfish Biscuits

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Food and recipes

Emergency casserole

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Stuffed Mushrooms – Greek Style

Self-reliance

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Start a fire in any weather

Saving money on the homestead

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...