Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Beekeeping basics

Building

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Never underestimate a woman

How safe is your electric fence?

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The summer of ’35

Fly it proudly and properly

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Whole grain breads baked at home

In search of the perfect cup of coffee

French Onion Soup

Baklava

Self-reliance

Drawing the line on timber trespass

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Cash in on your household junk

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Energy

Prepper power! Part 2

How to select the right backup generator

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

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

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Air power superiority

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...

Testing Soil

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Politics and Commentary

Lessons for My Children…Chapter 3: Hiding from the government

Stumbling over your own stupidity

If you want to survive an emergency, look to yourself, not the Government

Dealing with Liberals and History