Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Is that a good pig?

Raising rabbits for profit

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Building

Build a ski sled

By Kai Moessle Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Since my property is almost half a mile away from the nearest road and I can't keep the...

Build Your Own Car Wash

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Build a pizza oven

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Farm and Garden

Grow some winter squash this year

By Lisa Nourse I love summertime — I love the green of the trees, the warm weather, and growing my own food. I especially love...

Growing Strawberries

Growing Microgreens

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Blueberry Cash Crop

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Grandpa’s justice

The greatest American who was never President

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Here are some simple tips on how to store apples for a long, long time

Picking and preserving the wild plum

Earth’s greatest cookies

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Self-reliance

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Simplifying simplicity

Dealing with heat stress

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Solar-powered chicken coop

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

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

The light at the end of the gun

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Air power superiority

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...