Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

Slaughtering and Butchering

Good-bye old friend

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

A river rock shower

Building and stocking your pantry

Farm and Garden

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be...

Pruning Blueberries

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

How to Grow Potatoes

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

Fly it proudly and properly

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

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

Food and recipes

Veal Goulash

Pheasant and dumplings

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Louisiana gumbo

Self-reliance

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Homemade skin care products

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

The wonderful world of axes

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Power your bug-out bag

Emergency solar power for $950

Millenium Vehicles

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...