Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising Rabbits

Once a day milking

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

The homestead cat

Building

Renovating old walls

By David Lee Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Some years ago my wife and I were out searching for a new building lot when we fell...

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

How safe is your electric fence?

A river rock shower

Farm and Garden

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

By Jackie Clay Issue #56 In the past I've grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this,...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

The Best City Garden

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

The vanishing outhouse

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Food and recipes

Filipino Chicken Stew

Caribbean Catfish

Cajun Shrimp Appetizer

Persimmon cookies

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

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

Lessons learned from an ice storm

A worthwhile journey

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

How to select the right backup generator

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

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...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...