Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Home Dairying

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

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

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build your own portable forge

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Farm and Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

The Best City Garden

Meat For the Homestead

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

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...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Catfish Biscuits

The greatest American who was never President

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

Food and recipes

Elissaburgettes

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Survival storeroom

Power Up

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

An $89 backup generator

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Catch your own bait

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Just because

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...