Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Beekeeping basics

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

By Suzy Lowry Geno Website Exclusive • April, 2007 I have what seems like mountains of great "fertilizer" from my barn full of English Angora rabbits....

A simple backwoods hay baler

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build your own log home in the woods

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out....

How to Grow Garlic

Home-Grown Eggs

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

Grandpa’s justice

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

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Baked Bean Soup

Garlic Soup

Chicken Curry

How to make kombucha

Self-reliance

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Solar-powered refrigerators

Solar-powered water purifiers

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Moderate power firearms

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Women and guns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...