Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising your own beef

Beekeeping basics

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

New invention— The Fencerunner

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

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

Farm and Garden

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Sweet Potato Greens

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The time-travel ad

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Concord Sherbet

Chicken and dumpling stew

Broccoli-Turkey Casserole

Spicy Beef

Self-reliance

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

Pump water for free

Survival firebuilding skills

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

Energy

Making and using a solar cooker

Solar suitcase

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

The Appleseed Project

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...