Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Good-bye old friend

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

Building

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Easy awnings

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Slug Zapper

Growing Microgreens

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

The summer of ’35

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Raspberry chocolate torte

Chocolate crinkles

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Fig preserves

Self-reliance

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Power Up

Building and stocking your pantry

Energy

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Choose your ammo… police style

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Moderate power firearms

Sight and sound enhancement

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...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

The many benefits of garlic

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Theories of the universe

Politics and Commentary

Terrorism in America — The armed citizen’s view

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces

A lesson in respect

Climate Change Theory: science or religion?