Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Once a day milking

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

How to Install a Steel Roof

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

Meat For the Homestead

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

The Home Citrus Orchard

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

The summer of ’35

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Apple barbeque sauce

The healthy and tantalizing pomegranate

A Native American feast

The incredible cattail — The super Wal-Mart of the swamp

Self-reliance

Medicinal uses of garlic

Your survival depends on water

Homeschooling through high school

Homestead security for women

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Thoughts on ammunition

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

The world is ending! … Again?

Theories of the universe

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Testing Soil

Politics and Commentary

Avoiding legal traps

Libertarian and Conservative

Running your own business: a mother’s perspective

Defunding government is a sensible voter solution to reining in local government

Animals

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...

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...

Slaughtering and Butchering

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

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Once a day milking

Self-Reliance

Cleaning a well

Breastfeeding — A primer

Start a post-construction cleaning business

City boy, country boy

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that if I don't learn at least one thing every day,...

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Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up. They fussed with it a bit, but couldn't get it...

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