Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

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

By Claire Wolfe Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 December 2012. Welcome to my house as I first saw it. The door opens onto a dirt-floored room. It's...

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Claw Hammers

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Growing Microgreens

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Healthy holiday munchies — Guaranteed to take the sneak out of snacking

Masala jheenga

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Brew your own root beer

Self-reliance

Tips for finding your affordable home

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

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

Food security 101

Energy

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Add solar power to your truck camper

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Choose your ammo… police style

Moderate power firearms

Cold weather shooting considerations

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...