Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Redworm farming

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

Make adobe bricks

Woodbarrow

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Claw Hammers

Farm and Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

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...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Remembering what grandma used

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Raspberry ketchup

Dilled oyster crackers

Bread — The staff of life

German green beans

Self-reliance

Survival storeroom

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Air power superiority

Big boomer guns

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...