Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising Rabbits

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build Your Own Car Wash

Woodbarrow

Build a pallet fence

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Okra — Not Just for the South

Blueberry Cash Crop

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

Americana and History

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

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

Food and recipes

Vegetable Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Chocolate crinkles

Fermented dill pickles

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

Self-reliance

Power Up

The coffee mug knife sharpener

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Dim bulbs in California

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...