Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Raising rabbits for profit

Raising your own beef for your family

Once a day milking

Building

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Shake update

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

Farm and Garden

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I...

Growing Microgreens

Currants and Gooseberries

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

The barnyard scramble

Fried chicken for breakfast

Constitution of the united States of America

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

Basic chicken broth

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

Self-reliance

Wash day

The art of living in small spaces

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Cash in on your household junk

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Build Your Own Car Wash

Dim bulbs in California

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Air power superiority

Women and guns

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...