Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Slaughtering and Butchering

Get to know your spiders

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

Build a homestead Copy Cart

By Charles Sanders Issue #45 • July/August, 1997 I don't know too many homesteaders, gardeners, or small farmers who haven't at one time or another wished...

Build your own portable forge

This coop is for the birds

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Farm and Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

By John Fuchs Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 Leaves are an excellent way to add organic matter to the garden. However, using rawor unprocessedleaves has some...

Build a Composter

Meat For the Homestead

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

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?

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned baked beans

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

Fermented dill pickles

Pizza Casserole

Self-reliance

Shopping to beat inflation

Circle of friends

Survival/utility vest

Survival firebuilding skills

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Affordable firearms

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Tailoring guns to females

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...