Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Slaughtering and Butchering

Raising cattle on your own place

Animal disease traceability

Building

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

Rural Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Build a Composter

Tracing a bean

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The time-travel ad

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

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Challah

Vegetable Scramble

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

Bread pudding

Self-reliance

Building and stocking your pantry

Make your own firestarters

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

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Is steam power in your future?

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Guns and Hunting

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...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

The time for modern; the time for traditional

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...