Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Brooder in a box

Building

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

By Steve Maxwell How many times have you built an outdoor project out of wood, only to be disappointed by the deterioration that hit after...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

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

Our Unconventional House

Farm and Garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

By Charles Sanders Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 There are mountains of old tires out there. Americans keep on rolling and tires keep on wearing out....

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

The barnyard scramble

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Catfish Biscuits

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

How to make kombucha

Chilies rellenos

Black Bean and Avocado Dip

Ashe Torsh

Self-reliance

Stay clear of young wild animals

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Choosing a chain saw

There’s no such thing as free land!

Energy

Job site solar power

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

How big a gun do you need?

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

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...