Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Home Dairying

Where our farm animals come from

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Solar Building Design

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries...

Fruit Trees

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Americana and History

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2016, Backwoods Home I could spend all day coming up with interesting trivia about the Presidents and those who surround them —...

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

Remembering what grandma used

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Mac’s lamb curry bake

Salmon loaf

Hummus

Self-reliance

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Buy your country place from the government

Storm survivors

Survival firebuilding skills

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Build a community assistance recharging station

Energy class: Part 1

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Picking a holster

Big boomer guns

Thoughts on ammunition

The Appleseed Project

Science

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...