Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Once a day milking

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

Rural Building

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a Composter

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Okra — Not Just for the South

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

The time-travel ad

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Apricot stuffed Lamb Chops

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Self-reliance

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Tale of a country family

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Just because

Choose your ammo… police style

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Moderate power firearms

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...