Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Slaughtering and Butchering

Get to know your spiders

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

A salvaged oak floor for $5

By Robert L. Williams Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 Several months ago we decided we did not want to install a traditional bedroom floor of plywood...

Building a $3,000 Barn

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Getting logs

Build a Trail

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Peppers

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Growing Productive Strawberries

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Remembering what grandma used

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Spiced red beans

Thai fried rice

Jamaican Beef Patties

Sunday night dinner

Self-reliance

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Start a fire in any weather

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

13 steps to a life of freedom

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Solar-powered water purifiers

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Building the coyote rifle

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

How big a gun do you need?

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

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...