Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising your own beef for your family

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

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

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build a graceful footbridge

A river rock shower

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home,...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

The Potato Hole

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

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

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Gourmet nutrition with beans and rice

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Chicken Enchiladas

General Tso’s Chicken

Self-reliance

Preparedness for travelers

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

13 steps to a life of freedom

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Solar power for farm and ranch

Grid-down battery devices

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...