Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

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...

How to Grow Potatoes

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Growing Strawberries

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

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

Constitution of the united States of America

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Indian Pudding

Raspberry ketchup

Czarist Chicken Salad

Self-reliance

Tips for finding your affordable home

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Homestead Helpers

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Energy

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Picking a holster

Air power superiority

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...