Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising Rabbits

Where our farm animals come from

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Building and stocking your pantry

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Tracing a bean

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

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

The greatest American who was never President

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Food and recipes

Black & Blue Mango Pie

Make your own nut butters

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Self-reliance

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

10 ways to make money on your land

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Energy

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

Generators alone are not enough

Keep the Ice On

Battery powered weekend retreat

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...