Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Slaughtering and Butchering

The homestead cat

Building

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

How to Grow Potatoes

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

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The summer of ’35

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Twice Cooked Pork

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Self-reliance

Fully Involved

Wash day

Start a fire in any weather

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

Solar hot water systems

Solar Power 101: Inverters

How to select the right backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...