Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

Redworm farming

Slaughtering and Butchering

Once a day milking

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Farm and Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Fruit Trees

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

The time-travel ad

The greatest American who was never President

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Salmon candy and pickles — Two unique ways to enjoy your next catch

Salmon loaf

Boston brown bread

Czarist Chicken Salad

Self-reliance

Bartering for bad times

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Drive your own freshwater well

Buying a used mobile home

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Solar suitcase

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Canning game meat

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Just because

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...