Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Choosing a chain saw

Stairs — The next level

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Companion Planting

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

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 Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Remembering what grandma used

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Chicken Enchiladas

Blueberry Vareniki

Some unusual jellies for your sweet tooth

Mexican Stuffed Shells

Self-reliance

Food security 101: part 2

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Keeping tools sharp

Energy

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Generators alone are not enough

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Portable solar power

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Canning game meat

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Cold weather shooting considerations

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...