Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Home Dairying

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

By Don Lewis In 1874, a United States patent (#157,124) was issued to Joseph F. Glidden, a long-serving sheriff in DeKalb County, Illinois. His invention...

Gabion walls for form and function

Build a deluxe barrel stove

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

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Pruning Blueberries

Growing Potatoes in Straw

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...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Spicy Beef

Brew your own root beer

Corn cob jelly

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Self-reliance

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Water pumping windmills

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Picking a holster

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...