Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Beekeeping basics

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Rural Building

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a barrel stove

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Propagating Plants

The $1 Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Growing Strawberries

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

The summer of ’35

Catfish Biscuits

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Winter baking warms the house

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Hearty breakfast fillets

Potato Bread

Self-reliance

Caring for wounds in the field

Start a fire in any weather

Buy your country place from the government

Circle of friends

Energy

Solar power for farm and ranch

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Prepper power! Part 1

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...