Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising Rabbits

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

By Jay Stoler Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 Fiber cement board siding is one of a number of siding materials that is replacing wood these days...

Build a chicken tractor

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Building and using wattle fences

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

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Flowers Brighten the Garden

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Remembering what grandma used

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

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

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

Food and recipes

Garlic – the glorious bulb

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Fiery Frittata

Blueberry Vareniki

Self-reliance

Disaster preparation!

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

The many benefits of garlic

Avoiding heat illness

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

How to select the right backup generator

Power your bug-out bag

Solar-powered chicken coop

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...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Catch your own bait

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...