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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...

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

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

The greatest American who was never President

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

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

By Massad Ayoob Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Jeff Yago, Backwoods Home's energy writer, recently completed a couple of concealed carry handgun courses. The classes apparently...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Terrorist attack! Was this predictable?

The meltdown and the bailout: why, how, and what they mean

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely curled up next to the woodstove with a mug of...