Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

A contrary guide to feeding animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Animal disease traceability

Building

Make adobe bricks

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Last winter I got a phone call from an old friend in Arizona. One of his sons...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Renovating old walls

Farm and Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

The Homestead Greenhouse

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

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...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Zucchini casserole

Southern mint julep

Kugel

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Self-reliance

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Stay clear of young wild animals

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

Power your bug-out bag

Energy

Power-up bag

Solar Power 101: Inverters

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Reload your own brass

Picking a holster

Canning game meat

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...