Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Beekeeping basics

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Build a chicken house in a day

By Anita Evangelista Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 We built our chicken house for around $200. We could have done it for less if we were...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Shelves and benches

How to Install a Steel Roof

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

Mid-season planting

Grow some winter squash this year

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Naughty Peppers

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Self-reliance

Start a fire in any weather

Space heater safety tips

Take care of your knife

New yarn from old sweaters

Energy

Solar hot water systems

How to select the right backup generator

Is steam power in your future?

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...