Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a poultry killing cone

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Home Dairying

Building

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

By Charles Sanders Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Drying of food as a means of preservation has been around for a long time. Populations in suitably...

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Build a Trail

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Growing and Using Peppers

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Catfish Biscuits

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Pecan twerps

Dehydrating eggs at home

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Self-reliance

Food security 101: part 2

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Sight and sound enhancement

Catch your own bait

Thoughts on ammunition

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...