Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Raising rabbits for profit

Get to know your spiders

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

How to Grow Garlic

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The greatest American who was never President

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Fried Foods

Chocolate — Food for the Gods

Bread — The staff of life

Self-reliance

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Pump water for free

Energy

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

Grid-down battery devices

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Reload your own brass

The light at the end of the gun

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...