Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Home Dairying

Fermenting Chicken Feed

The homestead cat

Building

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Building and using wattle fences

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

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...

Pruning Blueberries

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

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

The greatest American who was never President

Fly it proudly and properly

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Garlic Soup

Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time

Pickled fish and rollmops

Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie

Self-reliance

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Survival storeroom

Homeschooling through high school

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Prepper power! Part 2

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

Energy class: Part 1

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....

The light at the end of the gun

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Catch your own bait

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...