Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #172 • July/August, 2018 Like most young folks today, our son David graduated high school, got a job, and went to college...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Gabion walls for form and function

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Our Unconventional House

Farm and Garden

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Grandpa’s justice

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Baked Bean Soup

Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie

Danish Meat Balls

Self-reliance

Woodstove cooking

Take care of your knife

10 tips for selling your homemade product

There’s no such thing as free land!

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Job site solar power

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...