Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Animal disease traceability

Building

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Building Eric’s house

Build an all-purpose ladder

Building and using wattle fences

A cabin for one

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 Carrots are an old-time homesteader favorite. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated, or simply stored in a cool...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Tea for the garden

Mid-season planting

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

Remembering what grandma used

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Succulent venison stew

Cheddar Breakfast Pizza

Making Yogurt

Freeze a holiday turkey to enjoy it all year long

Self-reliance

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

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

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Building the coyote rifle

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Reload your own brass

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...