Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

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

Good-bye old friend

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

By Thomas Brewer Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 I am not ambidextrous. My wife, Judith, uses chopsticks with either hand or even both hands at once....

Make adobe bricks

Three Raised Bed Designs

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

Build a stone wall

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...

Naughty Peppers

Build Your Own Hoop House

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

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

The time-travel ad

Constitution of the united States of America

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Boiled crawfish

Colorado Cowboy Cookies

Dragon’s breath chili

Successful cold storage

Self-reliance

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Call me plumber

Preparedness for travelers

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

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

Build a community assistance recharging station

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

The light at the end of the gun

Choose your ammo… police style

Canning game meat

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...