Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

The homestead cat

Home Dairying

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Home-Grown Eggs

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Butterpeas

Thai fried rice

Brew your own root beer

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

No dentist? Oh, no!

Bartering for bad times

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Keep the Ice On

Power-up bag

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

Thoughts on ammunition

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...