Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Redworm farming

Slaughtering and Butchering

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Build a pallet fence

Build a stone wall

Making and using a solar cooker

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Pruning Blueberries

Three Raised Bed Designs

Caring for your chickens in winter

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

The barnyard scramble

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Caribbean Barbecued Pork Steaks

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Lazy housewife pickles

Canning 101 — Pickles, fruits, jams, jellies, etc.

Self-reliance

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Start a fire in any weather

The community treasure chest

Energy

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Solar power trailer Part 1

Portable solar power

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Of guns and snakes

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Affordable firearms

Air power superiority

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...