Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Raising Rabbits

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Build a Composter

Building your chicken coop

Building a $3,000 Barn

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

Farm and Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

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

Food and recipes

Turning to turmeric

Lamb Curry with Yogurt

Hungarian venison stew

Stovetop Teriyaki

Self-reliance

How to organize an outdoor canning party

The Trigger Line

Digging a shallow well

Homestead Helpers

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Tailoring guns to females

Building the coyote rifle

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

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...