Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Is that a good pig?

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Good-bye old friend

Building

Shelves and benches

By David Lee Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Money doesn't buy happiness but it sure does buy a lot of stuff. If it is nice stuff...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Love Those Green Beans

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

The summer of ’35

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Blueberry tofu frappe

How to can chopped garlic

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Mint julep non-alcoholic

Self-reliance

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

How we found our remote backwoods home

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Earning money from home

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Solar power trailer Part 1

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Choose your ammo… police style

How big a gun do you need?

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...