Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Brooder in a box

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

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

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...

Woodbarrow

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

How to maintain a dirt road

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Farm and Garden

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

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...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The greatest American who was never President

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Butterpeas

Woodstove cooking

Crawfish fettucine

Raspberry Pears with Chocolate Sauce

Self-reliance

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Bartering for bad times

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Millenium Vehicles

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Women and guns

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...