Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

Finding the best dog for the country life

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Three Raised Bed Designs

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Build a ski sled

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Propagating Grapes

Okra — Not Just for the South

Fruit Trees

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Fly it proudly and properly

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

Food and recipes

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Nana V’s fire sauce

Cookies in a jar

Cooking from long-term food storage

Self-reliance

Homestead Helpers

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar system codes — Build it right!

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Prepper power! Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...