Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising rabbits for profit

Redworm farming

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

A cabin for one

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

By Jackie Clay Issue #56 In the past I've grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this,...

Gardening for Treasure

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

How to Grow Great Carrots

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Grandpa’s justice

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Baked Spaghetti

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Self-reliance

Building and stocking your pantry

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Turn your passion into a business

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Solar-powered refrigerators

Power-up bag

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

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

How big a gun do you need?

Affordable firearms

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...