Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Where our farm animals come from

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Farm and Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

The $1 Garden

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

Catfish Biscuits

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Duck with Mushrooms

Dragon’s breath chili

Dill-onion bread

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Self-reliance

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Grid-down battery devices

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Use the right ammunition!

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...