Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising Rabbits

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Build a barrel stove

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build your own log home in the woods

Farm and Garden

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

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Naughty Peppers

Love Those Green Beans

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Lemon-Tarragon Veal

Raspberry chocolate torte

Boston Baked Beans

Oregon Grape Jam

Self-reliance

Survival/utility vest

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Keeping tools sharp

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

Energy

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Tailoring guns to females

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Reload your own brass

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...