Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Build a poultry killing cone

Animal disease traceability

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build Your Own Hoop House

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Install rafters alone the easy way

Farm and Garden

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise...

Blueberry Cash Crop

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Pruning Blueberries

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Grandpa’s justice

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

A Native American feast

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Baby bok choy with tofu

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Brood X

The community treasure chest

There’s no such thing as free land!

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Emergency solar power for $950

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

Sight and sound enhancement

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Catch your own bait

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...