Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Build a poultry killing cone

Brooder in a box

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

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

Build a pallet fence

Woodbarrow

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him,...

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

The Potato Hole

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Fried chicken for breakfast

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Grandpa’s justice

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Thai fried rice

Spicy Beef and Peppers

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Eggplant salad

Self-reliance

Clean up your act!

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Life-saving snowshoes

Cast iron

Energy

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Solar Building Design

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Build Your Own Car Wash

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Moderate power firearms

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...