Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Good-bye old friend

Is that a good pig?

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

Build a homestead Copy Cart

A cabin for one

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Build a Keyhole Garden

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...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Bob’s basic breads for beginners, bachelors, barbarians, and backwoodsmen

Ashe Torsh

Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie

Fried Foods

Self-reliance

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Survival infection control

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Generators alone are not enough

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

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...