Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Get to know your spiders

Raising rabbits for profit

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

A cabin for one

Build a stone wall

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Gardening for Treasure

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Remembering what grandma used

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Blueberry tofu frappe

Basic brown stock

Food security 101: Part 1

Black & Blue Mango Pie

Self-reliance

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Simplifying simplicity

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

Power Up

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Air power superiority

The light at the end of the gun

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...