Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising Rabbits

Raising your own beef for your family

Switch your family to goat’s milk

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...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Salmon candy and pickles — Two unique ways to enjoy your next catch

Successful cold storage

Avoiding common canning mistakes

Blueberry tofu frappe

Self-reliance

The art of living in small spaces

Caveman walking stick

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Just because

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Big boomer guns

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...