Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising cattle on your own place

Home Dairying

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

Build a log crib

Build a poultry killing cone

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

How to Grow Potatoes

How to Grow Great Carrots

Home-Grown Eggs

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...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

Food and recipes

Freeze a holiday turkey to enjoy it all year long

Spicy Beef and Peppers

Chicken Enchiladas

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Self-reliance

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Preparing for civil unrest

The accidental homesteader

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Energy

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Is steam power in your future?

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

The Appleseed Project

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

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

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Politics and Commentary

Personal guns getting to be in style

The logic behind term limits and a historical perspective

Freedom, guns, & boycotts

Here are some answers to often-asked questions of anti-gunners

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Home Dairying

Brooder in a box

Is that a good pig?

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Self-Reliance

Dehydrating eggs at home

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

A guide to buying silver and gold

Cash in on your household junk

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop. After all, they give us a wide variety of products. Many...

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Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we moved to New Mexico, it was in late June and...

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