Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Once a day milking

Brooder in a box

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

A salvaged oak floor for $5

By Robert L. Williams Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 Several months ago we decided we did not want to install a traditional bedroom floor of plywood...

Build a ski sled

Rural Building

Build a chicken house in a day

Building Eric’s house

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Tea for the garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The greatest American who was never President

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Filipino Chicken Stew

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Buckboard bacon

Ginger beer

Self-reliance

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Bugging out in place

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Essential oils

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Prepper power! Part 1

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

The Appleseed Project

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...