Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

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

Building

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Build a ski sled

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build your own log home in the woods

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

Caring for your chickens in winter

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The time-travel ad

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

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Oregon Grape Jam

Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Self-reliance

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Cleaning a well

Flea market stories and strategies

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Canning game meat

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Picking a holster

Catch your own bait

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...