Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

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

Slaughtering and Butchering

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Make adobe bricks

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Woodbarrow

Build a wood crib with free materials

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Okra — Not Just for the South

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Growing Strawberries

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Remembering what grandma used

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

The chicken and the egg

Mac’s lamb curry bake

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Self-reliance

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

I heat my house by burning corn

Better wood heating

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Solar hot water systems

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...