Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Slaughtering and Butchering

Animal disease traceability

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 Carrots are an old-time homesteader favorite. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated, or simply stored in a cool...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Fried chicken for breakfast

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Galumbki

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Chocolate crinkles

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Self-reliance

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Breastfeeding — A primer

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Swedish log candle

Energy

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Tailoring guns to females

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

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...