Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Once a day milking

Home Dairying

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Build a ski sled

Build a homestead Copy Cart

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Pruning Blueberries

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

Catfish Biscuits

The vanishing outhouse

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Kids in the Kitchen

Dragon’s breath chili

Glazed spiced mocha brownies

Self-reliance

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

How to maintain your chimney

Tips for finding your affordable home

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Energy class: Part 1

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Power-up bag

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

How big a gun do you need?

Just because

Reload your own brass

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Science

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

By O.E. MacDougal November/December 2017, Backwoods Home For thousands of years, sleep has been one of life’s great mysteries. As humans, we spend about one-third of...

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

How big is the solar system?

Politics and Commentary

Why bureaucracy will likely destroy America

The tenuous hold of honesty in modern America

Lessons for My Children, Chapter 2: Statistics, history, and the rise of the Underground Economy

Training for the Boston Marathon

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

By John Silveira Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 What would happen if all the honeybees disappeared? According to some pundits we'd see a collapse in much...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising your own beef for your family

Slaughtering and Butchering

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Self-Reliance

Homestead Helpers

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Making a great rug from the rag bag

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 after all these years. One of the most valuable things...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at the end of the season. It's a lot of work,...