Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

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

Animal disease traceability

Bottle-raise a calf

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a lean-to greenhouse

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 Just thinking about a greenhouse can stimulate the senses. In our minds' eyes, we can see the filtered...

Stairs — The next level

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

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,...

The summer of ’35

The barnyard scramble

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

Food and recipes

Six Chile Chicken

Root vegetable casserole

Chicken chili

Southern mint julep

Self-reliance

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

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

Survival infection control

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Power your bug-out bag

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Sight and sound enhancement

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...