Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Where our farm animals come from

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Beekeeping basics

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Build your own portable forge

Our Unconventional House

Build a pallet fence

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Farm and Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet....

Mid-season planting

Propagating Plants

Love Those Green Beans

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

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;...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Dragon’s breath chili

The chicken and the egg

These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts

Lentil and meat stew

Self-reliance

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Bugging out in place

What to do when there’s no doctor

Brood X

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Solar power trailer Part 2

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...