Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Animal disease traceability

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Raising your own beef for your family

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

By Suzy Lowry Geno Website Exclusive • April, 2007 I have what seems like mountains of great "fertilizer" from my barn full of English Angora rabbits....

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Build a Groundhog Snare

How to Install a Steel Roof

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a Composter

Growing Microgreens

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Fly it proudly and properly

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

Food and recipes

Blueberry tofu frappe

Puerto Rican Rice With Pork

Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie

Spicy Beef and Peppers

Self-reliance

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Buying the right emergency radio

Breastfeeding — A primer

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

Solar Building Design

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...