Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Choosing a chain saw

By Steven Gregersen Issue #119 •September/October, 2009 Winter will be here soon and along with winter comes cold weather and high heating bills. Obviously there's nothing...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Claw Hammers

Shake update

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

The Potato Hole

Love Those Green Beans

Growing Microgreens

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

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

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

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

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

Food and recipes

Keep the Ice On

Green tomato kosher dill pickles

A Native American feast

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Self-reliance

Dehydrating eggs at home

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Waterpower for personal use

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...