Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet....

The Forever Floor

Build your own log home in the woods

Shake update

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Indian Fry Bread

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Broiled fish fillet with piri piri sauce

Louisiana gumbo

Self-reliance

Medical kits for self-reliant families

Life-saving snowshoes

Shopping to beat inflation

Cold process goat milk soap

Energy

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Our journey to modern off-grid living

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...