Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Raising your own beef for your family

The homestead cat

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Gabion walls for form and function

Build an all-purpose ladder

Build Your Own Hoop House

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Mid-season planting

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

The greatest American who was never President

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Jamaican Beef Patties

Four Pepper Pheasant

Butterpeas

Peloponnesian Pot Roast

Self-reliance

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Woodstove cooking

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

Circle of friends

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Of guns and snakes

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...