Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Goat birthing and raising kids

Slaughtering and Butchering

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Easy awnings

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 A window without an awning is like a lamp without a shade bare and glaring. In my...

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Shake update

The house that Dorothy built

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

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...

Grandpa’s justice

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Catfish Biscuits

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Wild edibles in delectable dishes

Mexican Stuffed Shells

Pickled nopalitos

Italian Christmas bread

Self-reliance

The wonderful world of axes

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Clean up your act!

Medicinal uses of garlic

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Grid-down battery devices

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Picking a holster

Big boomer guns

The Appleseed Project

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...