Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap
By Charles Sanders
Issue #64 • July/August, 2000
Every now and then, wild critters wear out their welcome around the homeplace. Gardens are raided, garbage cans ransacked, pet food filched, and other shenanigans are performed by...
Finally, a disaster that is guaranteed!
By Dave Duffy
Issue #105 • May/June, 2007
It's difficult to keep up with the dizzying pace of disasters various people say will befall mankind, everything from global warming to terrorists floating a nuke into L.A....
For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the past
By Rev. J.D. Hooker
Issue #41 • September/October, 1996
The thing I like the most about Backwoods Home is that, unlike a lot of other magazines, the articles are written by folks who are actually doing...
Medicinal uses of garlic
By Joseph Alton, M.D. and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P.
Issue #134 • March/April, 2012
One of the greatest gifts of natural medicine that can be found on this earth is garlic, or Allium sativum. It has been...
Gardening the Year ‘Round
By Alice B. Yeager
Website Exclusive • September, 2006
Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select vegetables such as garden peas, lettuce, mustard, radishes, onions, and...
Avoiding common canning mistakes
By Jackie Clay-Atkinson
Issue #142 • July/August, 2013
Canning has been an important part of my life since I was a young girl helping my mother and grandmother can in our Detroit basement. I loved the...
Four Pepper Pheasant
Recipe of the Week
Four Pepper Pheasant
Courtesy of
Danielle Nathanson
Ingredients
2 medium Pheasants (about 3-1/2 pounds each)
2 oranges, halved
8 to 10 thick slices fatty bacon
Four-pepper mix:
1 tablespoon whole red peppercorns
1 tablespoon whole...
The real gun criminals
By Dave Duffy
Issue #63 • May/June, 2000
If a person robbed a bank and murdered someone, and you drove the getaway car, would you be guilty of accessory to robbery and murder? If a man...
Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years
(and be assured everything still
works when you dig it up)
By Charles Wood
Issue #115 • January/February, 2009
Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the nation in general and gun owners in particular seemed rather...
10 traits for better living
By Claire Wolfe
Issue #151 • January/February, 2015
It's a mystery why one person can be poor but still proud, independent, and reasonably content while the guy next door is merely content to slide into a...
The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener
By Rick Brannan
Issue #87 • May/June, 2004
There are few things more frustrating and dangerous than working with a dull knife. In my quest for a sharp knife, I have purchased many different styles of...
Apple butter
Recipe of the Week
Apple butter
Courtesy of
Anne Westbrook Dominick
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
5 lbs. apples, stems removed and quartered
2 cups cider or cider vinegar
brown sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2...
Lemon-Tarragon Veal
Recipe of the Week
Lemon-Tarragon Veal
Courtesy of
Lynzi Porter
Ingredients
1 to 1 1/2 pounds veal scallops, pounded to flatten
flour
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons lemon zest
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
6...
Basic brown stock
Recipe of the Week
Basic brown stock
Courtesy of
Richard Blunt
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
5 lbs. raw beef bones (it helps if some of them are meaty)
5 qts. cold...
Affordable firearms
By Massad Ayoob
Issue #134 • March/April, 2012
Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle the topic of buying an adequate gun (and ammo, and...
The world is ending! … Again?
By John Silveira
Issue #85 • January/February, 2004
People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently in the news that was supposed to hit Earth and...
