Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

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

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

Brooder in a box

Building

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

By James F. Deaton Website Exclusive • January, 2006 The need to get firewood from a draw below my house to my woodshed started me on...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a Groundhog Snare

Woodbarrow

Build a wood crib with free materials

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Fruit Trees

Meat For the Homestead

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Grandpa’s justice

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Española eggs

A Native American feast

Nameless salad and dressing

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Self-reliance

Buying a used mobile home

Turn your passion into a business

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Making and using a solar cooker

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Just because

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...