Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Building Eric’s house

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

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...

Slug Zapper

Fruit Trees

Three Raised Bed Designs

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

The barnyard scramble

The summer of ’35

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Making dandelions palatable

Chicken San Francisco

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Southern mint julep

Self-reliance

There’s no such thing as free land!

What to do when there’s no doctor

Homeschooling through high school

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Our journey to modern off-grid living

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

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Sight and sound enhancement

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Choose your ammo… police style

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,...