Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Animal disease traceability

Building

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My family has always been big on birthdays and holidaysincluding Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, Fourth of July,...

A house a tornado helped build

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Building Eric’s house

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers...

Saving Seeds

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

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

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

The summer of ’35

Fried chicken for breakfast

The vanishing outhouse

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

Food and recipes

Blueberry wine jam

Homemade baking extracts

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts

Self-reliance

Tale of a country family

Making apple pectin

Buying the right emergency radio

Life-saving snowshoes

Energy

Prepper power! Part 1

Waterpower for personal use

Keep the Ice On

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Tailoring guns to females

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Of guns and snakes

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...