Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Goat birthing and raising kids

Home Dairying

Building

This coop is for the birds

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for 99 cents, or you can go out to...

A cabin for one

A house a tornado helped build

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Shelves and benches

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...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Demystifying real rye bread

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Healthy holiday munchies — Guaranteed to take the sneak out of snacking

Spider rice casserole

Self-reliance

Learning to love the high desert

Call me plumber

Survival firebuilding skills

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Power Up

Solar power for farm and ranch

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

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

The Appleseed Project

Reload your own brass

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...