Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

How to Install a Steel Roof

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

The Home Citrus Orchard

Tracing a bean

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Emergency casserole

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Broiled fish fillet with piri piri sauce

Pecan twerps

Self-reliance

Teach your kids math with the banking game

How to make money from storage building auctions

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Women and guns

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Big boomer guns

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...