Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Good-bye old friend

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Home Dairying

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

Building

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 When I graduated from high school in 1960, my father wrote in my autograph book, "When you get...

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build a stone wall

Farm and Garden

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

Saving Seeds

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Home-Grown Eggs

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

7 Mistakes of food storage

Kids in the Kitchen

Tasty uses for garden and wild edibles

Braised venison pepper steak

Self-reliance

Start a fire in any weather

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Foraging for wild berries

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Keep the Ice On

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

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...

Tailoring guns to females

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Picking a holster

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...