Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

By Jennifer Poindexter Issue #157 • January/February, 2016 Since my family is homesteading on a budget, the task of building a greenhouse had to be done...

Build a wood crib with free materials

How to Install a Steel Roof

Build an all-purpose ladder

The house that Dorothy built

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing Productive Strawberries

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Asparagus au gratin

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Cheesy fish chowder

Self-reliance

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Storm survivors

Caveman walking stick

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Energy

Prepper power! Part 1

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

How to select the right backup generator

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Affordable firearms

The light at the end of the gun

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...