Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Build a Trail

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Build a Keyhole Garden

Propagating Plants

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Grandma’s persimmon pudding

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

The dandelion is a healthful, great tasting weed you can eat

Raspberry chocolate torte

Self-reliance

Harvest your own firewood

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Learning to love the high desert

Energy

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

Grid-down battery devices

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...