Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Slaughtering and Butchering

Home Dairying

Good-bye old friend

Building

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

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

Making and using a solar cooker

A cabin for one

Never underestimate a woman

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Farm and Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

By John Fuchs Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 Leaves are an excellent way to add organic matter to the garden. However, using rawor unprocessedleaves has some...

Saving Seeds

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Mid-season planting

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The barnyard scramble

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

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

Food and recipes

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Tortellini Soup

Chicken Enchiladas

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Self-reliance

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Breastfeeding — A primer

Digging a shallow well

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Energy

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Solar-powered chicken coop

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Picking a holster

Sight and sound enhancement

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

The Appleseed Project

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...