Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Brooder in a box

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

Shake update

Build a graceful footbridge

Build a log crib

A cabin for one

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Tea for the garden

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Catfish Biscuits

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Making good jerky

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Old World apple chutney

Southern mint julep

Self-reliance

Garden injuries Part 2

This country job really rocks

Woodstove cooking

A young couple moves to the country

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

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

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Tailoring guns to females

Women and guns

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...