Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Redworm farming

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising your own beef

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Build a poultry killing cone

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Renovating old walls

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...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

How to Grow Great Carrots

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Nameless salad and dressing

Turkey the old-fashioned way

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

Green tomato kosher dill pickles

Self-reliance

Preparing for winter

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Simplifying simplicity

Homestead water

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Power-up bag

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Catch your own bait

The Appleseed Project

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...