Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build an attached solar greenhouse

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

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

Propagating Grapes

Growing Strawberries

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Huckleberries purple gold

Zucchini with green chilies

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Preserving plums

Self-reliance

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

How to maintain your chimney

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Storm survivors

Energy

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

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

By Massad Ayoob Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Long a supporter of the Appleseed concept, Backwoods Home Magazine hosted one in Gold Beach, Oregon, in second...

Tailoring guns to females

Women and guns

Air power superiority

Picking a holster

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...