Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

A river rock shower

Build your own repeating mouse trap

This coop is for the birds

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Farm and Garden

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...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

The Best City Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

The wonderful world of lavender

Danish Meat Balls

Grouse Hunting — The Ultimate Joy of Autumn

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Self-reliance

Take care of your knife

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Paring down for off-grid living

Tips for finding your affordable home

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Waterpower for personal use

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Moderate power firearms

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...