Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Home Dairying

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Build a barrel stove

Making and using a solar cooker

Build your own portable forge

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Fruit Trees

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Fried chicken for breakfast

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

The healthy and tantalizing pomegranate

Black Bean and Avocado Dip

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

Self-reliance

Fully Involved

The community treasure chest

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Is steam power in your future?

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

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

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...

Sight and sound enhancement

Cold weather shooting considerations

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Tailoring guns to females

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...