Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Good-bye old friend

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Animal disease traceability

Building

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

Choosing a chain saw

Building your chicken coop

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Farm and Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Home-Grown Eggs

Fruit Trees

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

The vanishing outhouse

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Winter baking warms the house

Blonde brownies

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Pecan twerps

Self-reliance

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Homestead helpers

Fully Involved

Energy

Grid-down battery devices

Solar suitcase

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...