Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Good-bye old friend

Raising your own beef for your family

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Build a deluxe barrel stove

By David Lee Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Winter is coming again, pretty much on schedule in spite of global warming, and it will be cold,...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build your own portable forge

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Mid-season planting

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Fruit Trees

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

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

Food and recipes

Pickled nopalitos

A healthy heart starts in the kitchen

Tomato and coriander salad

Boiled crawfish

Self-reliance

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Energy

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Power Up

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

How big a gun do you need?

The Appleseed Project

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

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...