Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

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

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Choosing a chain saw

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Grow some winter squash this year

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Spider rice casserole

Making baby food at home

Crabapple jelly

Apple Coffee Cake

Self-reliance

Making a great rug from the rag bag

The Trigger Line

The joys of making soap

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Homemade electric power

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

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

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...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Air power superiority

Canning game meat

Women and guns

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...