Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Goat birthing and raising kids

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

By David Lee Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 The reflected image in the mirrored letters give a "see-through" illusion to the sign and the tree. Stained glass...

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Easy awnings

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing and Using Peppers

How to Grow Great Carrots

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

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

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

Food and recipes

Blueberry wine jam

Four Pepper Pheasant

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Hungarian venison stew

Self-reliance

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

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

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Affordable firearms

Big boomer guns

How big a gun do you need?

Air power superiority

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...