Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Bovine basics for beginners

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Install rafters alone the easy way

Stairs — The next level

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

Farm and Garden

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Growing Potatoes in Straw

How to Grow Great Carrots

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The time-travel ad

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Hawaiian poha jam

Chicken Curry

Fermented dill pickles

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Self-reliance

The accidental homesteader

Buying the right emergency radio

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Energy

Solar Building Design

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Of guns and snakes

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

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

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Politics and Commentary

Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?

We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment

A reason for the Second Amendment

Fake lawsuits, stacked juries, and LAWYERS!

Animals

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...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Get to know your spiders

Raising Rabbits

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Self-Reliance

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Simplifying simplicity

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Farm and Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I learned this first hand last summer as I discovered some...

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Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that if I don't learn at least one thing every day,...

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