Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

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

Is that a good pig?

Good-bye old friend

Building

Building and Using Wattle Fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

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

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Companion Planting

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

The summer of ’35

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Food and recipes

Louisiana gumbo

Apples and sweet potatoes

Fermented dill pickles

Earth’s greatest cookies

Self-reliance

Saving money on the homestead

Call me plumber

Better wood heating

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

Energy

Homemade electric power

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Build Your Own Car Wash

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Choose your ammo… police style

Picking a holster

Building the coyote rifle

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...