Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Raising Rabbits

Animal disease traceability

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Making and using a solar cooker

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

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

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Lemons: the versatile fruit

Country-style Pork Stew

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Self-reliance

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

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

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Energy

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

An $89 backup generator

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

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...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Building the coyote rifle

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Of guns and snakes

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...