Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Good-bye old friend

Raising your own beef for your family

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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...

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Build a lean-to greenhouse

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Growing Microgreens

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Remembering what grandma used

Catfish Biscuits

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Hoppin’ John with fresh asparagus beans

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Kugel

Self-reliance

Paring down for off-grid living

Teaching the joy of reading

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Call me plumber

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Just because

Tailoring guns to females

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...