Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Get to know your spiders

Goat birthing and raising kids

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

How safe is your electric fence?

By Eloise Twining I’ve used solar powered electric fencing on my California ranch for at least 35 years. Over that time electric fencing has proved...

Renovating old walls

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Lemons: the versatile fruit

Persimmon cookies

Italian Christmas bread

Danish Meat Balls

Self-reliance

The community treasure chest

Clean up your act!

No dentist? Oh, no!

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Solar Building Design

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...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

By O.E. MacDougal July/August 2014 Backwoods Home Biologists and paleontologists are now pretty certain that birds are part of the dinosaur lineage. Their extinct relatives include...