Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising your own beef for your family

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

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...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Farm and Garden

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Fried chicken for breakfast

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Food and recipes

Elegant desserts for entertaining

Duck with Mushrooms

Potato Bread

How to use those leftovers

Self-reliance

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Power your bug-out bag

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Building the coyote rifle

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Tailoring guns to females

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...