Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Animal disease traceability

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

By Don Lewis In 1874, a United States patent (#157,124) was issued to Joseph F. Glidden, a long-serving sheriff in DeKalb County, Illinois. His invention...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Build a Composter

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Currants and Gooseberries

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Catfish Biscuits

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Dill-onion bread

Masala jheenga

Self-reliance

Raising kids simply

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

The wonderful world of axes

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Is steam power in your future?

Millenium Vehicles

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...