Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Beekeeping basics

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Build a log crib

Build a Trail

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Build a compost tumbler

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...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Tea for the garden

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

The greatest American who was never President

The summer of ’35

The barnyard scramble

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Linguini with Clam Sauce

Making Yogurt

Salsa

Smoked Salmon

Self-reliance

Harvest your own firewood

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

What to do when there’s no doctor

The wonderful world of axes

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Solar hot water systems

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolveror at least introduced it to Americain 1836. The...