Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Animal disease traceability

Raising your own beef

Get to know your spiders

Is that a good pig?

Building

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home,...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Our Unconventional House

Farm and Garden

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in...

Pruning Blueberries

Meat For the Homestead

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The greatest American who was never President

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Making good jerky

Chocolate — Food for the Gods

Emergency casserole

Making dandelions palatable

Self-reliance

Drive your own freshwater well

Avoiding heat illness

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Storm survivors

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

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

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Tailoring guns to females

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Big boomer guns

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Zombie Apocalypse

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Politics and Commentary

Planning the lives of generations to come

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

In time of war — The Israeli answer to terrorism