Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

The homestead cat

Beekeeping basics

Raising Rabbits

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

A river rock shower

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Growing Strawberries

How to Grow Garlic

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

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...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The time-travel ad

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Food and recipes

Cookies in a jar

Hamentaschen

Española eggs

Buckboard bacon

Self-reliance

Storing dry foods

The community treasure chest

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Energy

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Power Up

Solar system codes — Build it right!

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

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...