Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Beekeeping basics

Building

Renovating old walls

By David Lee Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Some years ago my wife and I were out searching for a new building lot when we fell...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

A simple backwoods hay baler

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Sweet Potato Greens

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

How to Grow Garlic

Build a Composter

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...

Catfish Biscuits

Fly it proudly and properly

Remembering what grandma used

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Hamburger soup

Skillet Spanish rice

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Seven secrets of Dutch oven cooking

Self-reliance

The Trigger Line

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

A guide to buying silver and gold

The joys of making soap

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Solar hot water systems

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Building the coyote rifle

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...