Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Beekeeping basics

Animal disease traceability

Where our farm animals come from

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

By Steve Maxwell How many times have you built an outdoor project out of wood, only to be disappointed by the deterioration that hit after...

How to maintain a dirt road

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Our Unconventional House

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

How to Grow Great Carrots

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Growing Productive Strawberries

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Catfish Biscuits

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

Food and recipes

Making Yogurt

Making dandelions palatable

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Self-reliance

Woodstove cooking

A young couple moves to the country

Tips for finding your affordable home

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Build your own battery charging station

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

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Thoughts on ammunition

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

The world is ending! … Again?

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Testing Soil

Politics and Commentary

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

Of kids and guns

Cheap guns are good enough

How to achieve affordable health care