Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Bovine basics for beginners

Once a day milking

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Building

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

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

A river rock shower

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

How to Grow Potatoes

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Grandpa’s justice

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Make your own nut butters

Beef and Cabbage Soup

Blueberry Vareniki

Pickled chili peppers

Self-reliance

Cast iron

Wash day

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Foraging for wild berries

Energy

Energy class: Part 1

Making and using a solar cooker

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Big boomer guns

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...