Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Beekeeping basics

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Gabion walls for form and function

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

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

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

Growing and Using Peppers

Victory Gardens

How to Grow Garlic

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Grandpa’s justice

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

Food and recipes

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Nana V’s fire sauce

My garden — A springboard of food, pleasure, and history

Pumpkin preserves

Self-reliance

Homestead helpers

Buying a used mobile home

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Space heater safety tips

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Keep the Ice On

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Reload your own brass

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...