Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build a ski sled

By Kai Moessle Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Since my property is almost half a mile away from the nearest road and I can't keep the...

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Easy awnings

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Farm and Garden

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...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Mid-season planting

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

The greatest American who was never President

The summer of ’35

The time-travel ad

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

Food and recipes

Healthy holiday munchies — Guaranteed to take the sneak out of snacking

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Maple Spiced Broiled Salmon

Fresh cucumber delight

Self-reliance

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

A worthwhile journey

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Energy

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

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

Solar power trailer Part 1

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

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...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Tailoring guns to females

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...