Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Woodbarrow

Build a compost tumbler

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build a Trail

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The greatest American who was never President

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Vegetarian pies

Make sourdough with wild yeast

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

The real “Q” — Barbecue the way it’s supposed to be

Self-reliance

The accidental homesteader

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Swedish log candle

Homestead helpers

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Millenium Vehicles

An $89 backup generator

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

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...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Women and guns

Building the coyote rifle

Canning game meat

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...