Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Slaughtering and Butchering

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

By Armand O. Deblois Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Cold stored fruits and vegetables are the next best thing to fresh-picked. Flavor and texture change little...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Make adobe bricks

Making and using a solar cooker

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Remembering what grandma used

The time-travel ad

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Chocolate — Food for the Gods

Orange Chiffon Cake

Hearty stews for the soul

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

Self-reliance

Paring down for off-grid living

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

How to maintain your chimney

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Energy

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Waterpower for personal use

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Tailoring guns to females

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...