Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Slaughtering and Butchering

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Sweet Potato Greens

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Homemade baking extracts

Deconstructing a bowl of red

Potato Latkes

Making hard cider

Self-reliance

Better wood heating

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Power-up bag

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

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...

Air power superiority

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Moderate power firearms

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...