Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

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

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Claw Hammers

Installing a steel roof

Three Raised Bed Designs

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...

Build a Composter

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Blueberry Cash Crop

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Fly it proudly and properly

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Cooking from long-term food storage

No fuss, no muss, one-pan grouse supper

Cherries and Chocolate Cake

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Self-reliance

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Cash in on your household junk

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

A worthwhile journey

Energy

Solar-powered water purifiers

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

Solar Food Drying

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Of guns and snakes

The Appleseed Project

The time for modern; the time for traditional

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...