Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Get to know your spiders

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Install rafters alone the easy way

By Robert L. Williams Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 Anyone who has ever worked on roof framing knows that nailing up rafters is a two-man job...

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Build your own log home in the woods

Getting logs

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Farm and Garden

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Composter

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Making dandelions palatable

The convenience of a bread bucket

Stuffed sweet peppers

Self-reliance

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Energy class: Part 1

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...