Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Redworm farming

Home Dairying

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Get to know your spiders

Building

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Solar Building Design

Build a wood crib with free materials

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Farm and Garden

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Home-Grown Eggs

Caring for your chickens in winter

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

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

Food and recipes

The convenience of a bread bucket

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

The enchanting Chanterelle — Gourmet goodies free from the forest

Apricot stuffed Lamb Chops

Self-reliance

Storm survivors

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Energy

Emergency solar power for $950

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Catch your own bait

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...