Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

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

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

How safe is your electric fence?

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Farm and Garden

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Naughty Peppers

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:...

The vanishing outhouse

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Lentil and meat stew

Louisiana gumbo

Pumpkin preserves

Hamburger soup

Self-reliance

The joys of making soap

Bath herbs

How we found our remote backwoods home

Buying a used mobile home

Energy

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Millenium Vehicles

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...