Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Bovine basics for beginners

Raising your own beef for your family

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Build a stone wall

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

A cabin for one

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

The Best City Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The vanishing outhouse

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Kentucky Country Ribs

The chicken and the egg

Southern mint julep

Preserving plums

Self-reliance

Paring down for off-grid living

Buy your country place from the government

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Energy

Water pumping windmills

Grid-down battery devices

Battery powered weekend retreat

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Catch your own bait

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...