Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Renovating old walls

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Companion Planting

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The vanishing outhouse

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

How to can chopped garlic

Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help

Canned bacon — Roll your own

Self-reliance

How to maintain your chimney

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Buying the right emergency radio

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...