Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Where our farm animals come from

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

By Claire Wolfe Issue #76 • July/August, 2002 I awoke last night to a circle of moonlight reflected on a wall. It was so vivid I...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Renovating old walls

Gabion walls for form and function

Build your own log home in the woods

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Propagating Grapes

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

The time-travel ad

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Hamentaschen

Apple and Potato Soup

Chicken chili

Cooking from long-term food storage

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Harvest your own firewood

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Disaster preparation!

Energy

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

An $89 backup generator

Generators alone are not enough

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Sight and sound enhancement

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Insects

By O. E. MacDougal November/December 2015, Backwoods Home Some 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, insects evolved from crustaceans. Since that time, they have...