Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Beekeeping basics

Get to know your spiders

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Build your own log home in the woods

Building Eric’s house

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Farm and Garden

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

The vanishing outhouse

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The barnyard scramble

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Cornmeal sour cream biscuits

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

Baked chili relleno casserole

Growing and Using Cilantro

Self-reliance

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

The joys of making soap

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Energy

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Grid-down battery devices

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Catch your own bait

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Women and guns

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...