Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising Rabbits

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

A simple backwoods hay baler

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Farm and Garden

Sweet Potato Greens

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Build a Keyhole Garden

Americana and History

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Remembering what grandma used

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

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Uncooked Peanut-butter Candy

Self-reliance

Cleaning a well

Bath herbs

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Swedish log candle

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Picking a holster

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Of guns and snakes

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...