Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Raising your own beef for your family

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 When I graduated from high school in 1960, my father wrote in my autograph book, "When you get...

Building and stocking your pantry

How to Install a Steel Roof

Gabion walls for form and function

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Farm and Garden

Jackie’s Garden Primer

By Jackie Clay Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 The birds are singing. The sunshine makes the day feel soft and warm. The soil is mellow and...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Tracing a bean

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

How to Grow Potatoes

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Constitution of the united States of America

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

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Pasteurizing milk

Tortellini Soup

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

How to make kombucha

Self-reliance

Bugging out in place

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Survival/utility vest

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...