Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising your own beef for your family

Is that a good pig?

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

By Robert Van Putten Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 My wife and I built our homestead by hand. I’m not a professional builder, so once in...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a chicken tractor

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Currants and Gooseberries

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Grandpa’s justice

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Garlic Soup

Baked Cod with Summer Squash

Dill-onion bread

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Self-reliance

Homestead Helpers

A worthwhile journey

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

Portable solar power

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...