Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Animal disease traceability

The homestead cat

Building

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 When I bought 10 dry barren "affordable" acres back in 1981 I got what I paid for: No...

Easy awnings

A river rock shower

Getting logs

Build a graceful footbridge

Farm and Garden

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw...

Tracing a bean

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

How to Grow Garlic

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Constitution of the united States of America

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Remembering what grandma used

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

Food and recipes

Kugel

How to make kombucha

Fermented dill pickles

Tomato-Avocado-Buttermilk Soup

Self-reliance

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Homemade skin care products

Space heater safety tips

The joys of making soap

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Generators alone are not enough

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Solar power for farm and ranch

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,...