Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Brooder in a box

Raising rabbits for profit

The homestead cat

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

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a Composter

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

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

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Love Those Green Beans

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Fly it proudly and properly

The greatest American who was never President

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

Food and recipes

Pot Roast With Spaghetti

Baked Bean Soup

You can safely and easily can your own meat

Woodstove cooking

Self-reliance

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Simplifying simplicity

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Foraging for wild berries

Energy

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

Water pumping windmills

Build a community assistance recharging station

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

How big a gun do you need?

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...