Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Redworm farming

Raising Rabbits

Get to know your spiders

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

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

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Cheesy fish chowder

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

General Tso’s Chicken

Puerto Rican Rice With Pork

Self-reliance

Garden injuries

Cold process goat milk soap

Homemade skin care products

The many benefits of garlic

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

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

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Air power superiority

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Just because

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...