Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Beekeeping basics

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Install rafters alone the easy way

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Companion Planting

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Catfish Biscuits

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

Food and recipes

Skillet Spanish rice

Apple and Potato Soup

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Pear honey

Self-reliance

Homestead Helpers

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Stay clear of young wild animals

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Power your bug-out bag

Energy class: Part 1

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...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Big boomer guns

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...