Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Where our farm animals come from

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

Redworm farming

Building

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

By David Lee Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 The reflected image in the mirrored letters give a "see-through" illusion to the sign and the tree. Stained glass...

Build a compost tumbler

Build your own log home in the woods

Installing a steel roof

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries...

Growing Microgreens

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Remembering what grandma used

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Sweet pepper salad

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Chicken Enchiladas

Tomato and basil sauce

Self-reliance

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Caveman walking stick

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

Brood X

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Portable solar power

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Power-up bag

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...

Use the right ammunition!

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

The light at the end of the gun

Tailoring guns to females

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...