Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build a Trail

By Claire Wolfe Standing near the top of the trail, looking down. The bright sunny spot in the middle distance will...

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

This coop is for the birds

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Make adobe bricks

Farm and Garden

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Pruning Blueberries

How to Grow Potatoes

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...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The vanishing outhouse

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Asparagus Pasta Salad

Dishpan cookies

Making dandelions palatable

More tips and tricks for the kitchen

Self-reliance

Wash day

Power your bug-out bag

Preparing for civil unrest

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Energy

Homemade electric power

Solar power for farm and ranch

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Reload your own brass

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Building the coyote rifle

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...