Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Bovine basics for beginners

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

By Dana Martin Batory Issue #84 • November/December, 2003 Sometimes it seems two hands are not enough—three would be nice, four even better. This economical, easy...

Build a chicken tractor

Build Your Own Hoop House

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Build a graceful footbridge

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Fruit Trees

The Homestead Greenhouse

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

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

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The summer of ’35

The time-travel ad

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Lamb Curry with Yogurt

Woodstove cooking

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

Self-reliance

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

The Trigger Line

Brood X

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Energy

Job site solar power

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

Solar power trailer Part 2

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Picking a holster

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

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

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...