Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

The homestead cat

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

By Steve Maxwell How many times have you built an outdoor project out of wood, only to be disappointed by the deterioration that hit after...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Farm and Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit...

Companion Planting

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Remembering what grandma used

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Toffee Bars, Maple Kisses, and Chocolate-Nut Cloud Candy

Chilies rellenos

Liver Fricassee

Self-reliance

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

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Shopping to beat inflation

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Energy

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

Power-up bag

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Women and guns

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...