Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

The house that Dorothy built

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the...

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Growing and Using Peppers

Jackie’s Garden Primer

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The greatest American who was never President

Fried chicken for breakfast

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Fermented dill pickles

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Solar Food Drying

Self-reliance

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Lessons learned from an ice storm

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

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

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

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Big boomer guns

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Air power superiority

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...