Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

The homestead cat

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

This coop is for the birds

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Our Unconventional House

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Tea for the garden

The Best City Garden

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Remembering what grandma used

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Irish coffee

Baklava

Sweet Pickles

These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts

Self-reliance

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Homeschooling through high school

Medical kits for self-reliant families

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Battery powered weekend retreat

Prepper power! Part 1

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Of guns and snakes

Thoughts on ammunition

How big a gun do you need?

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...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

The coming ice age

Zombie Apocalypse

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

Lessons for My Children Chapter 1

Should we scrap our ‘old’ Constitution?

Can America be Saved from Stupid People?

Finally, a disaster that is guaranteed!

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Brooder in a box

Raising cattle on your own place

The homestead cat

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Self-Reliance

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

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Woodstove cooking

A guide to buying silver and gold

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful tree in our small orchard I'd have to say it's...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden planning notebook. Although winter might feel like a time to...