Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Build a poultry killing cone

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...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build a barrel stove

Building a $3,000 Barn

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

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,...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Propagating Grapes

Meat For the Homestead

Companion Planting

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

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

Fly it proudly and properly

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

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Italian Pot Roast

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Gritted bread

Peloponnesian Pot Roast

Self-reliance

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Homeschooling through high school

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Making apple pectin

Energy

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Add solar power to your truck camper

Millenium Vehicles

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Tailoring guns to females

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

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

How big is the solar system?

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

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

Politics and Commentary

Is it time for an education revolution?

Lessons for My Children Chapter 1

Our ‘unenumerated’ rights

Sgt. Jim Duffy — An ordinary hero