Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Where our farm animals come from

Finding the best dog for the country life

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Woodbarrow

Renovating old walls

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

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

Sweet Potato Greens

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Apple slaw

Four Pepper Pheasant

Crawfish fettucine

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Self-reliance

Drawing the line on timber trespass

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Emergency solar power for $950

Power-up bag

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...