Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

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

Beekeeping basics

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

Easy awnings

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

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

Farm and Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

By Corcceigh Green Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Isn't it funny how even the things we step on while walking on the lawn have value? I...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Build a Composter

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Fruit Trees

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

The time-travel ad

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

Fly it proudly and properly

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Elk Roast With Cranberries

Dilled oyster crackers

7 Mistakes of food storage

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Self-reliance

The art of living in small spaces

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Dim bulbs in California

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

How big a gun do you need?

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Of guns and snakes

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...