Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Where our farm animals come from

Raising your own beef for your family

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...

Woodbarrow

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Fruit Trees

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

The time-travel ad

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

Constitution of the united States of America

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Turning to turmeric

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

Green Shrimp Soup

Self-reliance

The joys of making soap

City boy, country boy

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

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

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Homemade electric power

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

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Tailoring guns to females

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...