Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Raising your own beef for your family

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

By Charles Sanders Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Drying of food as a means of preservation has been around for a long time. Populations in suitably...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build a graceful footbridge

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Testing Soil

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

The summer of ’35

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Canning chickens for the pantry

Apricot stuffed Lamb Chops

Fermented dill pickles

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

Self-reliance

Survival/utility vest

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Defeating debt

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Solar Food Drying

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Air power superiority

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Use the right ammunition!

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

The many benefits of garlic

Theories of the universe

Politics and Commentary

My View: Learn to Do One Thing Well

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

Concealed carry laws reduce crime