Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Raising rabbits for profit

The homestead cat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Build a graceful footbridge

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Build a poultry killing cone

Farm and Garden

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...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Propagating Plants

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

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

Grandpa’s justice

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

My garden — A springboard of food, pleasure, and history

Apricot stuffed Lamb Chops

Crabapple jelly

Food security 101: Part 1

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Defeating debt

How to maintain your chimney

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Prepper power! Part 2

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

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

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

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

The light at the end of the gun

Thoughts on ammunition

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...