Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

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...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Trail

Build a chicken tractor

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Build Your Own Hoop House

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Tracing a bean

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The greatest American who was never President

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Breakfast Cereal

Winter baking warms the house

Masala jheenga

Self-reliance

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

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Caring for wounds in the field

The fire wick fire starter

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Solar power for farm and ranch

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...