Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Renovating old walls

By David Lee Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Some years ago my wife and I were out searching for a new building lot when we fell...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Small engine maintenance for women

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Start your food storage on $10 a week

10 ways to make money on your land

How we found our remote backwoods home

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Add solar power to your truck camper

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Reflections on the Second Amendment

Armed civilians can help fight terrorism

How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Bottle-raise a calf

By Jackie Clay Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 If you think milk and beef are expensive in the grocery store, then you should think about raising...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that if I don't learn at least one thing every day,...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...