Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

The homestead cat

Bovine basics for beginners

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

Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Adventures with a portable sawmill

How to Install a Steel Roof

Build a poultry killing cone

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Grow Your Own Dishrags

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

The barnyard scramble

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Food and recipes

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Blanching vegetables

Cajun Shrimp Appetizer

Baked Spaghetti

Self-reliance

Buy your country place from the government

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Prepper power! Part 1

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

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Cold weather shooting considerations

The light at the end of the gun

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Catch your own bait

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...