Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Beekeeping basics

Bottle-raise a calf

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 When I graduated from high school in 1960, my father wrote in my autograph book, "When you get...

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Installing a steel roof

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Three Raised Bed Designs

Growing the Eternal Tomato

How to Grow Garlic

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Fly it proudly and properly

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Tetsukabuto squash pie

Potato soup

Dilled oyster crackers

Chicken San Francisco

Self-reliance

Disaster preparation!

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Bugging out in place

Energy

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Job site solar power

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Affordable firearms

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...