Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Good-bye old friend

Beekeeping basics

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

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

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build Your Own Car Wash

Farm and Garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him,...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Mid-season planting

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

The time-travel ad

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Indian Fry Bread

Demystifying real rye bread

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Linguini with Clam Sauce

Self-reliance

The many benefits of garlic

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Disaster preparation!

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Water pumping windmills

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Tailoring guns to females

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Air power superiority

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...