Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising Rabbits

Home Dairying

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

By James Ballou Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 A certain degree of self reliance is obtainable by those who have the knowledge and skills, resourcefulness, courage,...

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Making and using a solar cooker

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

By John Fuchs Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 Leaves are an excellent way to add organic matter to the garden. However, using rawor unprocessedleaves has some...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Pruning Blueberries

Growing the Eternal Tomato

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...

Grandpa’s justice

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Remembering what grandma used

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Layered casserole

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Persimmon cookies

Healthy holiday munchies — Guaranteed to take the sneak out of snacking

Self-reliance

Fully Involved

Defeating debt

Disaster preparation!

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Energy

Water pumping windmills

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Moderate power firearms

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...