Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Bovine basics for beginners

Home Dairying

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Companion Planting

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

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

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Zucchini with green chilies

Potato soup

Irish coffee

Indian Pudding

Self-reliance

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Making apple pectin

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Power Up

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Waterpower for personal use

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Tailoring guns to females

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...