Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

The homestead cat

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Build a chicken tractor

Installing a steel roof

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

Farm and Garden

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

The Home Citrus Orchard

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Growing Microgreens

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

Food and recipes

The convenience of a bread bucket

Duck with Mushrooms

Old-fashioned baked beans

Caribbean Catfish

Self-reliance

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Prepper power! Part 1

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Catch your own bait

Moderate power firearms

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...