Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Our Unconventional House

By Judy Zent Website Exclusive • December, 2002 Fig. 1 - Tire walls with roof framing. Need a prolonged workout? Want to do some major recycling? Want...

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Emergency solar power for $950

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

A brief history of health and medicine

Do we need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights?

Guns, suicide prevention, and backwoods lifestyles

Loading the gun for a dictatorship

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and harvest as much food as possible from the plants you...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time went by, I found other reasons (or should I say...