Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Is that a good pig?

Get to know your spiders

Raising rabbits for profit

Brooder in a box

Building

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

How to Install a Steel Roof

Build a Trail

Shelves and benches

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

The $1 Garden

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Terrific tamale pie

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Cornmeal sour cream biscuits

Sorrento Salad

Self-reliance

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Caring for wounds in the field

Dealing with heat stress

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

How to select the right backup generator

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....