Tel: 541-250-5134
Email: customer-service@backwoodshome.com
Facebook

Animals

Building

Build a lean-to greenhouse

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 Just thinking about a greenhouse can stimulate the senses. In our minds' eyes, we can see the filtered...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

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

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Farm and Garden

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home,...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The barnyard scramble

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

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolver—or at least introduced it to America—in 1836. The...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

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

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Use the right ammunition!

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...

Gee-Whiz: Trees

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Theories of the universe

Science and truth. Are they related?

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising your own beef for your family

Brooder in a box

Raising Rabbits

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one, Grandpa!" With those words of warning he dropped another gunny...
Read more

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the early spring. We tried it both ways for many years...
Read more
Copyright © 2026 Self-Reliance Publications LLC. All rights reserved.