Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Goat birthing and raising kids

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Animal disease traceability

Building

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

By Robert Van Putten Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 My wife and I built our homestead by hand. I’m not a professional builder, so once in...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

A simple backwoods hay baler

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Farm and Garden

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

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Meat For the Homestead

Propagating Grapes

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

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

The barnyard scramble

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Cajun Shrimp Appetizer

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Chilies rellenos

Self-reliance

Call me plumber

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Survival infection control

Energy

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

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

Solar-powered water purifiers

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Affordable firearms

The Appleseed Project

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

The coming ice age

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Politics and Commentary

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

The black man’s worst enemy is not racism

The parasitic nature of bureaucracy

Analyzing Obama on guns