Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Animal disease traceability

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

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Build a log crib

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The greatest American who was never President

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Pecan twerps

Chicken chili

Baked Spaghetti

Self-reliance

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Is steam power in your future?

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

Guns and Hunting

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...