Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Build a chicken house in a day

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Building Eric’s house

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Build a Composter

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Beans for Sarah

Easy raspberry jam

Artichoke-Spinach Casserole

Self-reliance

Foraging for wild berries

Survival storeroom

Garden injuries Part 2

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Build a community assistance recharging station

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

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