Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

Slaughtering and Butchering

Redworm farming

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build a stone wall

The Forever Floor

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...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Fried chicken for breakfast

The time-travel ad

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Persimmon cookies

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

Solar Food Drying

Self-reliance

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Defeating debt

Your survival depends on water

I heat my house by burning corn

Energy

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

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Canning game meat

Choose your ammo… police style

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

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...