Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

New invention— The Fencerunner

By Dietmar Berg Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Here's a gadget I developed to run barb or barbless wire. You mount it on the back of...

A river rock shower

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Farm and Garden

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between...

Build a Composter

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Tea for the garden

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Catfish Biscuits

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Crabapple jelly

Sweet potato pudding

Black Beans & Rice

Venison Chili

Self-reliance

Clean up your act!

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Caveman walking stick

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Guns and Hunting

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Women and guns

Affordable firearms

The light at the end of the gun

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

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...