Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Building a $3,000 Barn

Build a ski sled

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

Currants and Gooseberries

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Build a Keyhole Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Catfish Biscuits

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Kugel

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Sweet & Sour Cabbage

Self-reliance

Homestead helpers

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Getting logs

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Power Up

Making and using a solar cooker

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

How big a gun do you need?

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Choose your ammo… police style

Catch your own bait

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...