Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Building and stocking your pantry

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Farm and Garden

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Pruning Blueberries

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Growing Productive Strawberries

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....

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The barnyard scramble

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

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

Food and recipes

Smoked Salmon

Buckboard bacon

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Blueberry Vareniki

Self-reliance

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Life-saving snowshoes

Buy your country place from the government

Make your own firestarters

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Solar power trailer Part 1

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Build Your Own Car Wash

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

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

Women and guns

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

The Appleseed Project

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...