Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef

Once a day milking

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Building

Choosing a chain saw

By Steven Gregersen Issue #119 •September/October, 2009 Winter will be here soon and along with winter comes cold weather and high heating bills. Obviously there's nothing...

Solar Building Design

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

A river rock shower

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Pecan twerps

Lamb Curry with Yogurt

Vegetable Scramble

Self-reliance

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Medicinal uses of garlic

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Fully Involved

Energy

Build your own battery charging station

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Build a community assistance recharging station

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Reload your own brass

Sight and sound enhancement

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...