Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Once a day milking

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 When I bought 10 dry barren "affordable" acres back in 1981 I got what I paid for: No...

Choosing a chain saw

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

How safe is your electric fence?

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Growing Productive Strawberries

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Three Raised Bed Designs

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...

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

The time-travel ad

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Bread — The staff of life

Braised rabbit with red wine

Salmon loaf

Self-reliance

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Harvest your own firewood

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Keep the Ice On

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

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

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...