Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Build a poultry killing cone

Animal disease traceability

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...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

By John Fuchs Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 Leaves are an excellent way to add organic matter to the garden. However, using rawor unprocessedleaves has some...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Constitution of the united States of America

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The summer of ’35

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Quince preserves

Hummingbird Cake

Hamburger soup

Vidalia Onion Pie

Self-reliance

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Survival firebuilding skills

Disaster preparation!

Energy

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

Emergency solar power for $950

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...