Roy Martin Archives - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

By Amanda J. Kemp Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Spring brings the pitter-patter of little feet in the mud, games of tag, and raucous quacks. While...

Raising Rabbits

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Goat birthing and raising kids

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Self-Reliance

10 ways to make money on your land

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

The Trigger Line

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Farm and Garden

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and harvest as much food as possible from the plants you...

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 you wish to make it. One of the easiest ways...