Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

New invention— The Fencerunner

By Dietmar Berg Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Here's a gadget I developed to run barb or barbless wire. You mount it on the back of...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Build a wood crib with free materials

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The greatest American who was never President

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Emergency solar power for $950

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...

Science and truth. Are they related?

Guns, suicide prevention, and backwoods lifestyles

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

Reflections on the Second Amendment

Three honest words: “I don’t know”

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if your budget is lean and you want something green, there's...

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large or small varieties. Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 When we dig in...