Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Fermenting Chicken Feed

The homestead cat

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Build a portable woodstove for $30

By David Scott Matthews Issue #78 • November/December, 2002 I had a problem. Other men love football, baseball, basketball, or golf. I love to hunt. And...

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise...

Gardening for Treasure

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Chicken chili

Uncooked Peanut-butter Candy

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Southern mint julep

Self-reliance

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Survival storeroom

Energy

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Making and using a solar cooker

Solar power trailer Part 1

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...