Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Building and stocking your pantry

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Farm and Garden

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

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

Fly it proudly and properly

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Boost your immune system with fast and easy fish dishes

Wonderful wilderness wines

Chicken chili

Self-reliance

A guide to buying silver and gold

There’s no such thing as free land!

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Solar power trailer Part 1

Keep the Ice On

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Thoughts on ammunition

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Women and guns

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...