Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Raising cattle on your own place

Finding the best dog for the country life

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Easy awnings

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 A window without an awning is like a lamp without a shade bare and glaring. In my...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Getting logs

Building Eric’s house

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

The Potato Hole

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Catfish Biscuits

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Louisiana gumbo

Apple-Mango Scallops

Basic biscotti cookie

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Self-reliance

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

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

A young couple moves to the country

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

Solar-powered refrigerators

Solar Food Drying

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Air power superiority

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Building the coyote rifle

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

The many benefits of garlic

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

Our energy crisis Part 3 — Alternative energy resources for the nation and for the self-reliant

A history lesson from Ayn Rand

The ‘Curious Guy’ and the ‘Offended Woman’

The curse of oil