Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

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

The house that Dorothy built

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 This isn't the first time we've had an article by and about...

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build your own log home in the woods

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up....

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

Canning meat plus how to use your canned meat

Stay clear of young wild animals

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

A brief history of health and medicine

Our energy crisis Part 1 — It’s our creation, but we can fix it

What kind of Americans sit on our juries?

Every group needs a black sheep

Finding the best dog for the country life

By Anita Evangelista Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 When you're looking for a dog to fit into your country life, there are few other topics as...

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

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

Caring for wounds in the field

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to plant. When spring arrives you'll be ready. Spring is the best...