Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Is that a good pig?

Get to know your spiders

Building

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

Build an all-purpose ladder

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build a Trail

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

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

How to Grow Great Carrots

Propagating Plants

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

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

Constitution of the united States of America

The vanishing outhouse

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Spiced red beans

Italian Christmas bread

Whole grain breads baked at home

Self-reliance

Survival storeroom

Drawing the line on timber trespass

The art of living in small spaces

How to maintain your chimney

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Generators alone are not enough

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

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...

Use the right ammunition!

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Just because

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...