Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising Rabbits

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

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

Getting logs

Making and using a solar cooker

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

How to Grow Garlic

Blueberry Cash Crop

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

The greatest American who was never President

Fly it proudly and properly

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Food and recipes

Layered casserole

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

7 Mistakes of food storage

Hungarian venison stew

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Waterpower for personal use

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Catch your own bait

The time for modern; the time for traditional

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...