Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Animal disease traceability

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...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Stairs — The next level

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

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...

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

Blueberry Cash Crop

Tea for the garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

The vanishing outhouse

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Grandpa’s justice

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

No fuss, no muss, one-pan grouse supper

Tomato and coriander salad

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

The chicken and the egg

Self-reliance

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Harvest your own firewood

Small camp security

Energy

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

Prepper power! Part 2

Solar Food Drying

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Building the coyote rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...