Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Keeping homestead animals healthy

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

How safe is your electric fence?

By Eloise Twining I’ve used solar powered electric fencing on my California ranch for at least 35 years. Over that time electric fencing has proved...

Building Eric’s house

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Build an all-purpose ladder

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

Remembering what grandma used

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Butterpeas

Pastoral bread

The chicken and the egg

Lamb Curry with Yogurt

Self-reliance

Make a quilt out of Levis

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Cash in on your household junk

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Reload your own brass

Tailoring guns to females

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...