Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Slaughtering and Butchering

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

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

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one,...

Tracing a bean

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Propagating Grapes

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Remembering what grandma used

The time-travel ad

The barnyard scramble

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Brew your own root beer

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Boiled crawfish

A few favorite recipes and books

Self-reliance

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Flea market stories and strategies

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Energy class: Part 3

Solar Building Design

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Reload your own brass

Sight and sound enhancement

Catch your own bait

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...