Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

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

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising your own beef for your family

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

By Robert Van Putten Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 For a year and a half, we lived in an 18-foot travel trailer while building a straw...

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Constitution of the united States of America

The dandelion is a healthful, great tasting weed you can eat

Medical kits for self-reliant families

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

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

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Self-reliance is a mindset — A woman’s opinion

The unheralded roots of America’s freedoms

How America can be saved from stupid people

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Where our farm animals come from

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can escape to the country and become a...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of groves of tall, leafy plants swaying gently through the air...