Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Get to know your spiders

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build a wood crib with free materials

Rural Building

Making and using a solar cooker

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Currants and Gooseberries

Caring for your chickens in winter

Growing Strawberries

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...

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

Fly it proudly and properly

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

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

Food and recipes

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Dill-onion bread

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Self-reliance

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Paring down for off-grid living

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Power-up bag

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

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...