Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Is that a good pig?

Bovine basics for beginners

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

Build a compost tumbler

By Joe Mooney Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 A few years back, I caught myself becoming a bit frustrated with my compost pile. It seemed that...

How to maintain a dirt road

Build an attached solar greenhouse

A simple backwoods hay baler

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Catfish Biscuits

Remembering what grandma used

The vanishing outhouse

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Bread — The staff of life

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Spiced red beans

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

There’s no such thing as free land!

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

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

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Power Up

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Picking a holster

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...