Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising your own beef for your family

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Naughty Peppers

Saving Seeds

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

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...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

Food and recipes

Duane’s shrimp dip

Lemon-Tarragon Veal

The chicken and the egg

Baking Bread

Self-reliance

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Homestead helpers

Survival/utility vest

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Emergency solar power for $950

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Choose your ammo… police style

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...