Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Build a Composter

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Farm and Garden

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

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,...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Constitution of the united States of America

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Minestrone-hamburger soup

Elegant desserts for entertaining

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

Apple and Potato Soup

Self-reliance

Paring down for off-grid living

Swedish log candle

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Dim bulbs in California

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

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

Use the right ammunition!

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Tailoring guns to females

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...