Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

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

Good-bye old friend

Building

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

By Jennifer Poindexter Issue #157 • January/February, 2016 Since my family is homesteading on a budget, the task of building a greenhouse had to be done...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Building and Using Wattle Fences

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...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Build a Heated Germination Bed

The Homestead Greenhouse

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

Catfish Biscuits

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Food and recipes

Gourmet nutrition with beans and rice

Apple-Mango Scallops

The incredible cattail — The super Wal-Mart of the swamp

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Self-reliance

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Food security 101: part 2

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Take care of your knife

Energy

Power Up

Prepper power! Part 2

Energy class: Part 3

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...