Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

Finding the best dog for the country life

Redworm farming

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build a deluxe barrel stove

By David Lee Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Winter is coming again, pretty much on schedule in spite of global warming, and it will be cold,...

Building Eric’s house

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Build a chicken house in a day

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Pruning Blueberries

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Fruit Trees

How to Grow Great Carrots

Americana and History

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

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

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

The time-travel ad

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Indian Pudding

Polish Chicken

Mexican Stuffed Shells

Pear honey

Self-reliance

How to maintain your chimney

Fire resistant property

Tale of a country family

Turn your passion into a business

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

How to select the right backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...