Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Build Your Own Car Wash

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

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

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Caring for your chickens in winter

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

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

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

Fly it proudly and properly

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Chicken and dumpling stew

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Chicken Enchiladas

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Self-reliance

Drive your own freshwater well

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

The joys of making soap

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Energy

Energy class: Part 1

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Solar-powered chicken coop

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Of guns and snakes

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

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

Picking a holster

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The many benefits of garlic

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

Confessions of a former liberal

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

The state of freedom in America

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox