Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

The homestead cat

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

By Monika Williams Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 I am always trying to come up with different ways to utilize the small space I have to...

Getting logs

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Our Unconventional House

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Farm and Garden

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Build a Composter

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

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

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Baked Spaghetti

German green beans

Earth’s greatest cookies

Dehydrating eggs at home

Self-reliance

Dehydrating eggs at home

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

How to make money from storage building auctions

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

How to select the right backup generator

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Sight and sound enhancement

Moderate power firearms

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...