Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Slaughtering and Butchering

Good-bye old friend

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build your own log home in the woods

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Gardening for Treasure

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Build a Composter

Flowers Brighten the Garden

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....

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

No fuss, no muss, one-pan grouse supper

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Kids in the Kitchen

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

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

Small camp security

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Reload your own brass

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Moderate power firearms

Catch your own bait

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

Gee-Whiz: Trees

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Politics and Commentary

Guns, suicide prevention, and backwoods lifestyles

If you want to survive an emergency, look to yourself, not the Government

Cheap guns are good enough

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces