Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Get to know your spiders

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Build a ski sled

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Fruit Trees

Fermenting Chicken Feed

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...

Fly it proudly and properly

Catfish Biscuits

Fried chicken for breakfast

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Elk Roast With Cranberries

Dublin Coddle

Freeze a holiday turkey to enjoy it all year long

Self-reliance

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

How we found our remote backwoods home

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Power Up

Energy

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Grid-down battery devices

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...