Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Goat birthing and raising kids

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Once a day milking

Building

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

By Rick Brentlinger Issue #53 • September/October, 1998 If I could show you how to manufacture a product anywhere in the country and if I offered...

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

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

Small engine maintenance for women

Farm and Garden

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Katelynn Bond Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 One of the hazards of living on the side of a mountain in northern New Mexico is that...

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Slug Zapper

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Testing Soil

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The summer of ’35

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Coconut Rice Pudding

Brew your own root beer

Zucchini casserole

The chicken and the egg

Self-reliance

Keeping tools sharp

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

The Trigger Line

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Energy

Solar hot water systems

An $89 backup generator

Millenium Vehicles

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

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

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

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...