Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

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

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Getting logs

Build an all-purpose ladder

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Peppers

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Testing Soil

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the 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:...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Remembering what grandma used

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Red flannel hash

Baby bok choy with tofu

Caribbean Barbecued Pork Steaks

Apple and berry pies

Self-reliance

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

This country job really rocks

The accidental homesteader

Energy

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Build Your Own Car Wash

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...