Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

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

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

Home Dairying

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Build a pallet fence

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Shelves and benches

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Meat For the Homestead

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Growing and Using Peppers

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Introduction to water bath canning

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Dandelion recipes

Self-reliance

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Earning money from home

Make your own firestarters

The fire wick fire starter

Energy

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Build Your Own Car Wash

Generators alone are not enough

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...