Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

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

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Our Unconventional House

By Judy Zent Website Exclusive • December, 2002 Fig. 1 - Tire walls with roof framing. Need a prolonged workout? Want to do some major recycling? Want...

A cabin for one

Install rafters alone the easy way

Installing a steel roof

Make adobe bricks

Farm and Garden

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...

Tea for the garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Currants and Gooseberries

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...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The greatest American who was never President

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

Food and recipes

Potato Bread

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Italian Christmas bread

Boost your immune system with fast and easy fish dishes

Self-reliance

Teaching the joy of reading

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Survival infection control

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

An $89 backup generator

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

Cold weather shooting considerations

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

The light at the end of the gun

Reload your own brass

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...