Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising Rabbits

Bovine basics for beginners

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

By James Ballou Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 A certain degree of self reliance is obtainable by those who have the knowledge and skills, resourcefulness, courage,...

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Woodbarrow

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a Trail

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Home-Grown Eggs

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

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The vanishing outhouse

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Eggnog

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Hearty breakfast fillets

Self-reliance

Buying a used mobile home

Garden injuries

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

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...

How big a gun do you need?

Cold weather shooting considerations

Just because

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

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...