Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

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

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

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

By Claire Wolfe Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 December 2012. Welcome to my house as I first saw it. The door opens onto a dirt-floored room. It's...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

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

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Farm and Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

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,...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Catfish Biscuits

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Food and recipes

Dark moons

Zucchini casserole

Boston Baked Beans

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

Self-reliance

Food security 101: part 2

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Drawing the line on timber trespass

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Energy

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

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

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

Affordable firearms

Catch your own bait

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...