Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Get to know your spiders

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Shake update

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Oregon Grape Jam

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Making sausage

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Self-reliance

Woodstove cooking

Paring down for off-grid living

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Storm survivors

Energy

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Just because

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Moderate power firearms

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...