Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising Rabbits

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

Build a pizza oven

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Building Eric’s house

New invention— The Fencerunner

Farm and Garden

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

By Jackie Clay Issue #56 In the past I've grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this,...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Fruit Trees

Propagating Plants

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

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

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

The time-travel ad

The greatest American who was never President

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

Food and recipes

Seven secrets of Dutch oven cooking

Moroccan mint tea

Wheat

Apple slaw

Self-reliance

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

The art of living in small spaces

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Emergency solar power for $950

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Power Up

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Sight and sound enhancement

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

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...