Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Home Dairying

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Building

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

Getting logs

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Making and using a solar cooker

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Catfish Biscuits

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

Food and recipes

Indian Pudding

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Chocolate — Food for the Gods

Orange honey pudding

Self-reliance

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Pump water for free

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

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...