Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

By Don Lewis In the last issue of Backwoods Home Magazine, we covered Part 1 of livestock fencing for the small homesteader. The article included...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Rural Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out....

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Build a Composter

The Home Citrus Orchard

Gardening for Treasure

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 greatest American who was never President

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Turkey the old-fashioned way

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Sunday night dinner

Pheasant and dumplings

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Learning to love the high desert

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Raising kids simply

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...