Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Good-bye old friend

Slaughtering and Butchering

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Rural Building

Claw Hammers

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Farm and Garden

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Propagating Grapes

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

The Best City Garden

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Fly it proudly and properly

The barnyard scramble

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Dill-onion bread

Eggplant salad

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Self-reliance

The Trigger Line

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

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Disaster preparation!

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Emergency solar power for $950

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Reload your own brass

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

The many benefits of garlic

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Politics and Commentary

The destruction of the mass print media will help save freedom in America

Which is better, a small town or city?

ID cards are an idea whose time should never come

Can America be Saved from Stupid People?