Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

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

Slaughtering and Butchering

Home Dairying

Building

The Forever Floor

By David Lee Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 It is pretty devious starting off an article with an exaggeration but now that I have your attention...

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Three Raised Bed Designs

Solar Building Design

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 Carrots are an old-time homesteader favorite. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated, or simply stored in a cool...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

The $1 Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The barnyard scramble

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Six Chile Chicken

General Tso’s Chicken

Potato soup

Lemons: the versatile fruit

Self-reliance

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Disaster preparation!

Fire resistant property

Buy your country place from the government

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

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

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Add solar power to your truck camper

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...