Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Bovine basics for beginners

Goat birthing and raising kids

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

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

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

This coop is for the birds

Three Raised Bed Designs

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Build a Keyhole Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The greatest American who was never President

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Chicken chili

Pear honey

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

You can become a hardcore forager

Self-reliance

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

I heat my house by burning corn

Shopping to beat inflation

Energy

Battery powered weekend retreat

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

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...