Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

The greatest American who was never President

By John Silveira Issue #60a • November/December, 1999 "The election's next year, right?" I asked. Dave Duffy, the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine, was editing a rather...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

The art of living in small spaces

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

What to do when there’s no doctor

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...

A reason for the Second Amendment

Should we scrap our ‘old’ Constitution?

Our energy crisis Part 2 — Nuclear energy is sensible and safe

Should both drugs and guns be legal?

Beekeeping basics

Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Bees have been managed for their honey production for about 5000 years or so. Especially for the...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Where our farm animals come from

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Buy your country place from the government

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select vegetables such as garden peas, lettuce, mustard, radishes, onions, and...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved Water Quality, You...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....