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Animals

Building

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

By Claire Wolfe Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 December 2012. Welcome to my house as I first saw it. The door opens onto a dirt-floored room. It's...

Stairs — The next level

Our Unconventional House

Build a compost tumbler

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Slug Zapper

Growing Strawberries

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

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

Thoughts on ammunition

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

How big is the solar system?

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

Is that a good pig?

By Kim Dieter Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 Lean ham, roasts, chops, savory sausage, and thick slices of bacon are the reason pigs are raised at...

Raising your own beef for your family

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Brooder in a box

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better, more efficient way to perform chores, especially chores that reoccurred...
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The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one, Grandpa!" With those words of warning he dropped another gunny...
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