Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising your own beef

Animal disease traceability

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Woodbarrow

Never underestimate a woman

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a chicken tractor

Farm and Garden

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...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Chocolate crinkles

Pita bread

Kentucky Country Ribs

Self-reliance

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Survival infection control

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Catch your own bait

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...