Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

Build a wood crib with free materials

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Build a log crib

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

Home-Grown Eggs

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Saving Seeds

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Challah

Blanching vegetables

French Onion Soup

Self-reliance

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Life-saving snowshoes

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

No dentist? Oh, no!

Energy

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Prepper power! Part 1

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Of guns and snakes

Building the coyote rifle

Big boomer guns

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...