Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Where our farm animals come from

Goat birthing and raising kids

Home Dairying

Building

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

By Dana Martin Batory Issue #84 • November/December, 2003 Sometimes it seems two hands are not enough—three would be nice, four even better. This economical, easy...

The house that Dorothy built

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Woodbarrow

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until...

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

The Best City Garden

Tracing a bean

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

The time-travel ad

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The greatest American who was never President

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Mint julep non-alcoholic

Peanut Soup

Chilies rellenos

Self-reliance

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Build Your Own Car Wash

Keep the Ice On

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Canning game meat

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Reload your own brass

Science

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By John Silveira (aka O.E. MacDougal) May/June 2017 Backwoods Home The greatest inventions in history are the ones we now take for granted. Fire and the...