Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising Rabbits

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Shake update

By David Lee Website Exclusive • January, 2005 Since my shake article was published in Backwoods Home Magazine, Issue #88, I have learned that some of...

Build a log crib

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

A cabin for one

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

How to Grow Garlic

Propagating Grapes

Naughty Peppers

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

The greatest American who was never President

The vanishing outhouse

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Tomato and basil sauce

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Cooking from long-term food storage

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Self-reliance

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Cast iron

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Homeschooling through high school

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Just because

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Choose your ammo… police style

Use the right ammunition!

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...