Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Get to know your spiders

Once a day milking

Good-bye old friend

Building

Our Unconventional House

By Judy Zent Website Exclusive • December, 2002 Fig. 1 - Tire walls with roof framing. Need a prolonged workout? Want to do some major recycling? Want...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space...

Naughty Peppers

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Food security 101: Part 1

Hearty breakfast fillets

Chicken and dumpling stew

Self-reliance

Swedish log candle

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Homemade skin care products

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Homemade electric power

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Guns and Hunting

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...