Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising your own beef

The homestead cat

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 Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

This coop is for the birds

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Farm and Garden

Sweet Potato Greens

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Blueberry Cash Crop

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The summer of ’35

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

Food and recipes

Black Beans & Rice

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Green tomato kosher dill pickles

Venison Stew

Self-reliance

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Garden injuries

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Avoiding heat illness

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Power-up bag

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Building the coyote rifle

Just because

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...