Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Build a poultry killing cone

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Claw Hammers

By R.E. Rawlinson Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle observed that “Man is a tool using animal … without tools he is nothing, with tools...

Building and stocking your pantry

Shake update

Build a ski sled

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Meat For the Homestead

How to Grow Potatoes

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Grandpa’s justice

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Self-reliance

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

City boy, country boy

Caring for wounds in the field

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Is steam power in your future?

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Big boomer guns

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...