Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Beekeeping basics

Build a poultry killing cone

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 chicken house in a day

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Farm and Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Plant Once Harvest for Years

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Remembering what grandma used

The time-travel ad

Fried chicken for breakfast

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Hearty stews for the soul

Vegetable Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Self-reliance

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Energy

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

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Water pumping windmills

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Air power superiority

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...