Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

The homestead cat

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Slug Zapper

Tea for the garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

The vanishing outhouse

The summer of ’35

The greatest American who was never President

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Concord Sherbet

Four Pepper Pheasant

Woodstove cooking

Self-reliance

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Survival storeroom

Essential oils

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Dim bulbs in California

Portable solar power

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Women and guns

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...