Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Make adobe bricks

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Growing Productive Strawberries

Grow some winter squash this year

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...

The vanishing outhouse

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

Food and recipes

Broccoli and Ziti

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Lamb Curry with Yogurt

Mexican Stuffed Shells

Self-reliance

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

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

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Preparedness for travelers

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Prepper power! Part 1

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...