Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

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

Raising Rabbits

Home Dairying

Building

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...

Shake update

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build your own repeating mouse trap

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

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

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

Grow some winter squash this year

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

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

The greatest American who was never President

Constitution of the united States of America

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Wheat

Homemade baking extracts

My garden — A springboard of food, pleasure, and history

Self-reliance

Homestead Helpers

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Making and using a solar cooker

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Building the coyote rifle

Science

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Theories of the universe

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Politics and Commentary

A vast cultural divide exists between environmentalists and gun owners

The destruction of the mass print media will help save freedom in America

Terrorist attack! Was this predictable?

Finally, a disaster that is guaranteed!