Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Where our farm animals come from

Brooder in a box

Home Dairying

Building

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....

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Solar Building Design

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

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

Mid-season planting

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Fried chicken for breakfast

The greatest American who was never President

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Old-fashioned applesauce cake

Sunday night dinner

Apple Coffee Cake

Self-reliance

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

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

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

How to make money from storage building auctions

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Power-up bag

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...

Just because

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

How to shoot a handgun accurately

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...