Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Get to know your spiders

Is that a good pig?

Build a poultry killing cone

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

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Never underestimate a woman

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Make adobe bricks

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Growing and Using Peppers

Build a Composter

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

The summer of ’35

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The vanishing outhouse

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

These salads are hearty dishes

Wonderful wilderness wines

Española eggs

Basic brown stock

Self-reliance

Learning to love the high desert

Fire resistant property

What to do when there’s no doctor

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Power-up bag

Solar hot water systems

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Choose your ammo… police style

The Appleseed Project

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...