Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Never underestimate a woman

A simple backwoods hay baler

Build an attached solar greenhouse

A salvaged oak floor for $5

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...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Grow some winter squash this year

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

The healthy kitchen — Good spoons, knives, and food

Your honey will love your sweet buns

Apple slaw

Self-reliance

Caveman walking stick

Survival storeroom

Buy your country place from the government

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Women and guns

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...