Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

How safe is your electric fence?

Rural Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Build your own log home in the woods

Farm and Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I...

Companion Planting

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Home-Grown Eggs

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Ham and sausage jambalaya

Pastoral bread

Self-reliance

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Homestead Helpers

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Bartering for bad times

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...