Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

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

Bottle-raise a calf

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

Build a Composter

Build a poultry killing cone

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a Groundhog Snare

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

How to Grow Great Carrots

Build a Composter

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Grandma’s persimmon pudding

Española eggs

Cracklin’s — An irresistible snack that you can’t stop sneakin’

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Self-reliance

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Fire resistant property

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Solar suitcase

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Use the right ammunition!

The Appleseed Project

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...