Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

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

Building

Build a Trail

By Claire Wolfe Standing near the top of the trail, looking down. The bright sunny spot in the middle distance will...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Building Eric’s house

Build a pallet fence

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

Mid-season planting

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Remembering what grandma used

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

The perfect holiday meal

Gritted bread

Woodstove cooking

Elissaburgettes

Self-reliance

Food security 101: part 2

Survival/utility vest

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Garden injuries

Energy

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

Homemade electric power

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...