Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Build a poultry killing cone

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

By Martin Harris Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 When you strip away all the frills, building construction is nothing more than enclosing a volume of space...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Build your own log home in the woods

Build a poultry killing cone

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Catfish Biscuits

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

The time-travel ad

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Crawfish fettucine

Jo’s Kentucky-fried cole slaw

Vidalia Onion Pie

Bean-beef casserole

Self-reliance

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Dehydrating eggs at home

No dentist? Oh, no!

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Energy class: Part 1

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Solar power for farm and ranch

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Affordable firearms

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Of guns and snakes

Big boomer guns

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...