Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

The homestead cat

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Build a Composter

Build a Trail

Shelves and benches

Never underestimate a woman

Farm and Garden

Growing Microgreens

By Lisa Nourse Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

The vanishing outhouse

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Fried tuna patties

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Self-reliance

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Garden injuries Part 2

Shopping to beat inflation

Buy your country place from the government

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Build Your Own Car Wash

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...