Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Home Dairying

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a Trail

By Claire Wolfe Standing near the top of the trail, looking down. The bright sunny spot in the middle distance will...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Build a pallet fence

Build a barrel stove

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Growing Microgreens

Blueberry Cash Crop

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...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Indian Pudding

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Stuffed Mushrooms – Greek Style

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Self-reliance

Buy your country place from the government

The joys of making soap

Disaster preparation!

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Energy

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Build your own battery charging station

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Sight and sound enhancement

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Gee-Whiz: Trees

By O. E. Macdougal September/October 2015, Backwoods Home We’re told they include some of the oldest and largest living organisms on the planet. But do...