Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Finding the best dog for the country life

Slaughtering and Butchering

Redworm farming

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

The house that Dorothy built

Easy awnings

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of...

Currants and Gooseberries

The Homestead Greenhouse

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

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

Remembering what grandma used

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Four Pepper Pheasant

Mango Delight

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Self-reliance

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Simplifying simplicity

Your survival depends on water

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar-powered refrigerators

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Sight and sound enhancement

Reload your own brass

Affordable firearms

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...