Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

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

Get to know your spiders

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Gabion walls for form and function

By Joe Mooney Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 I think there has to be something ingrained in the human brain that loves things built of stone....

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Build a compost tumbler

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Caring for your chickens in winter

Growing Productive Strawberries

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The greatest American who was never President

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Boston Baked Beans

Skillet Spanish rice

Waldorf salad

Traditional trail foods — Transportable calories

Self-reliance

Foraging for wild berries

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Tailoring guns to females

Big boomer guns

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Politics and Commentary

Getting the state out of marriage

Can an understanding of math and statistics save America’s freedoms?

We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment

Paying for social security with worthless $