Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Get to know your spiders

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

How safe is your electric fence?

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of...

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

The time-travel ad

Remembering what grandma used

Catfish Biscuits

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Stuffed sweet peppers

Uncooked Peanut-butter Candy

Tortellini Soup

Self-reliance

How we found our remote backwoods home

Drive your own freshwater well

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Prepper power! Part 1

Power Up

Solar power for farm and ranch

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...