Backwoods Home Magazine - Practical Self-Reliance

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and one may have been a murderess

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Practical Ideas for Self-Reliant Living

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Vitamins D and K — way more important than you thought

Grow some winter squash this year

Boost your immune system with fast and easy fish dishes

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Caring for your chickens in winter

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Follow Jackie Clay-Atkinson and her husband, Will, as they homestead a 120-acre piece of northern Minnesotan woods entirely off-grid. Sharing their homestead are horses, beef cattle, a milk cow, dairy goats, chickens and turkeys.

Massad Ayoob on Guns

This blog, from a retired police captain and self-defense instructor, covers the use of different firearms, political musings, and self-defense tactics.

Building

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Make adobe bricks

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Self-Reliance

Call me plumber

The 7 core areas of preparedness

By Patrice Lewis Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 As I write this article, it's early September. And September, as you may or may not know, is...

Cold process goat milk soap

By Michele Cooper Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 Making soap can seem scary to some people, but the truth is, it only takes a few steps. Tools...

Animals

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising your own beef

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Science and Education

Science and truth. Are they related?

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The many benefits of garlic

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

By Jeffrey R. Yago, P.E. It may be surprising to learn that there are now all kinds of do-it-yourself solar powered devices specifically designed to...

Power-up bag

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Keep the Ice On

Power Up

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and one may have been a murderess

The summer of ’35

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Firearms

Cold weather shooting considerations

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

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 revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Preparedness

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

The fire wick fire starter

Emergency treatment for fire-related injuries

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Survival firebuilding skills

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Articles By Dave Duffy

My View: Call Me Miracle Man!

By Dave Duffy Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Superheroes are the rage these days at movie theaters. Even I am fascinated by them. Old style heroes...