Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build an all-purpose ladder

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

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

Farm and Garden

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Plant Once Harvest for Years

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 Great Depression — A reminiscence

Catfish Biscuits

The summer of ’35

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Fried tuna patties

Self-reliance

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

The many benefits of garlic

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

City boy, country boy

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Build your own battery charging station

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Picking a holster

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Time

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2016, Backwoods Home Time. We can’t see, feel, hear, smell, or taste it, but we can measure it and we break it...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Politics and Commentary

The state of freedom in America

Here are some answers to often-asked questions of anti-gunners

Should we scrap our ‘old’ Constitution?

My view: Socialism’s promises always end in disaster