Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Goat birthing and raising kids

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

New invention— The Fencerunner

By Dietmar Berg Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Here's a gadget I developed to run barb or barbless wire. You mount it on the back of...

Install rafters alone the easy way

Three Raised Bed Designs

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Love Those Green Beans

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

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

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

Food and recipes

Fail-proof white bread

Skillet Spanish rice

Beef and Cabbage Soup

Buckboard bacon

Self-reliance

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

How to make money from storage building auctions

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Call me plumber

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Reload your own brass

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Use the right ammunition!

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...