Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

The homestead cat

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Shelves and benches

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Farm and Garden

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw...

Love Those Green Beans

Tea for the garden

Propagating Grapes

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Catfish Biscuits

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Apple barbeque sauce

Coffee Kringle

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Bean-beef casserole

Self-reliance

Homeschooling through high school

Brood X

Keeping tools sharp

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

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

Emergency solar power for $950

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Politics and Commentary

My View: Grand Theory vs. Stark Reality

Goodbye TV, hello constructive time

Our energy crisis Part 3 — Alternative energy resources for the nation and for the self-reliant

Guns Save Lives Chapter 1: Point Blank