Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

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

Is that a good pig?

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The homesteading lifestyle can require a number of tools to cultivate the garden, maintain the home, repair the...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build your own portable forge

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Build a Composter

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The greatest American who was never President

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

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

Food and recipes

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Apple ham salad

Preserving plums

Self-reliance

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Getting logs

A guide to buying silver and gold

Breastfeeding — A primer

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

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

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Sight and sound enhancement

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Big boomer guns

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...