Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

A simple backwoods hay baler

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Naughty Peppers

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Layered casserole

Chow-chow

Bean-beef casserole

Stovetop Teriyaki

Self-reliance

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Power Up

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Build Your Own Car Wash

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,...

Reload your own brass

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...