Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Once a day milking

Get to know your spiders

Raising your own beef

Building

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

A river rock shower

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

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

The summer of ’35

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Baked Bean Soup

Apple ham salad

Galumbki

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Self-reliance

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Wash day

Cold process goat milk soap

Energy

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

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

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....