Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Get to know your spiders

Raising cattle on your own place

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build a log crib

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

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Gardening for Treasure

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

The summer of ’35

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Catfish Biscuits

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Mac’s lamb curry bake

Smoked Salmon

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Self-reliance

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

How we found our remote backwoods home

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Millenium Vehicles

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

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Picking a holster

Big boomer guns

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...