Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Build a Groundhog Snare

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Build an all-purpose ladder

Build Your Own Hoop House

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Propagating Grapes

Americana and History

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

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Grandpa’s justice

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

Food and recipes

Pecan twerps

Stovetop Teriyaki

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Old World apple chutney

Self-reliance

The fire wick fire starter

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Bath herbs

Breastfeeding — A primer

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Build your own battery charging station

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...