Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Beekeeping basics

Slaughtering and Butchering

Is that a good pig?

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Our Unconventional House

Build Your Own Car Wash

Farm and Garden

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Home-Grown Eggs

The Best City Garden

Saving Seeds

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

The summer of ’35

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

Food and recipes

Chicken Enchiladas

Jamaican Beef Patties

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Lenie in the kitchen: Hamburger and potato casserole

Self-reliance

Lessons learned from an ice storm

The accidental homesteader

Paring down for off-grid living

Harvest your own firewood

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Grid-down battery devices

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Big boomer guns

The light at the end of the gun

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Air power superiority

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...