Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

The homestead cat

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Tracing a bean

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

The time-travel ad

The vanishing outhouse

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Baked Beans, Two

Chocolate — Food for the Gods

Liver Fricassee

Venison Chili

Self-reliance

Paring down for off-grid living

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

A worthwhile journey

Dealing with heat stress

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Is steam power in your future?

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...