Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Once a day milking

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

How to Install a Steel Roof

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Our Unconventional House

Build a log crib

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Testing Soil

Build Your Own Hoop House

Grow some winter squash this year

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

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...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Chocolate crinkles

Mexican Stuffed Shells

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Dandelion recipes

Self-reliance

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Is steam power in your future?

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...