Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Slaughtering and Butchering

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Is that a good pig?

Building

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Build a chicken tractor

A simple backwoods hay baler

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Installing a steel roof

Farm and Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

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...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Food and recipes

Baklava

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Hot Artichoke Dip

Self-reliance

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Portable solar power

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Tailoring guns to females

Thoughts on ammunition

Canning game meat

The Appleseed Project

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...