Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Bovine basics for beginners

A contrary guide to feeding animals

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Building

Building and Using Wattle Fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

How to maintain a dirt road

Build a barrel stove

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

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...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Naughty Peppers

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

The vanishing outhouse

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Bean Salad With Fresh Herbs

Corned Beef Cakes

Boiled crawfish

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Self-reliance

Clean up your act!

Storing dry foods

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Solar Food Drying

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

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

The Appleseed Project

Affordable firearms

Of guns and snakes

Use the right ammunition!

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...