Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

By Jay Stoler Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 Fiber cement board siding is one of a number of siding materials that is replacing wood these days...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Build your own log home in the woods

Stairs — The next level

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Farm and Garden

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to...

Tracing a bean

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

The Homestead Greenhouse

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The vanishing outhouse

Remembering what grandma used

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Moroccan mint tea

Galumbki

Pasteurizing milk

The chicken and the egg

Self-reliance

Pump water for free

Building and stocking your pantry

This country job really rocks

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

How to select the right backup generator

Battery powered weekend retreat

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Reload your own brass

Canning game meat

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...