Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Brooder in a box

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Rural Building

Woodbarrow

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

New invention— The Fencerunner

Farm and Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my...

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

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

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

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

Food and recipes

Old World apple chutney

Cracklin’s — An irresistible snack that you can’t stop sneakin’

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Ashe Torsh

Self-reliance

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Homestead Helpers

Preparing for winter

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar suitcase

Solar-powered chicken coop

Build your own battery charging station

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...

Air power superiority

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Just because

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...