Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Where our farm animals come from

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Build a barrel stove

Build your own portable forge

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Gardening for Treasure

Love Those Green Beans

The $1 Garden

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Catfish Biscuits

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Keep the Ice On

Introduction to water bath canning

Maple Spiced Broiled Salmon

Making Yogurt

Self-reliance

Preparing for civil unrest

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Disaster preparation!

A young couple moves to the country

Energy

Making and using a solar cooker

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...