Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Slaughtering and Butchering

Get to know your spiders

Home Dairying

Building

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

Build a pizza oven

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Shake update

Farm and Garden

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

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to...

How to Grow Garlic

Saving Seeds

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Food and recipes

Duane’s shrimp dip

Fried tuna patties

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Self-reliance

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Grid-down battery devices

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...