Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

Beekeeping basics

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

By Jay Stoler Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 Fiber cement board siding is one of a number of siding materials that is replacing wood these days...

Woodbarrow

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

By Howard Tuckey Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 In less than an hour last fall, I tilled up a 4x8 foot garden bed and planted 250...

Victory Gardens

Plant Once Harvest for Years

How to Grow Garlic

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

The time-travel ad

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Pickled chili peppers

How to tell a bad egg

Apple barbeque sauce

Zucchini casserole

Self-reliance

Buying a used mobile home

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Flea market stories and strategies

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Energy

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Prepper power! Part 2

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

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Thoughts on ammunition

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Moderate power firearms

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...