Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Finding the best dog for the country life

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #43 • January/February, 1997 I know that there are a lot of really fine products available for turning logs into lumber,...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a chicken house in a day

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

The Potato Hole

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

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...

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

Catfish Biscuits

Constitution of the united States of America

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Elissaburgettes

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Self-reliance

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

The Trigger Line

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Prepper power! Part 2

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Sight and sound enhancement

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...