Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Home Dairying

Beekeeping basics

Is that a good pig?

Redworm farming

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Shake update

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Farm and Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Old-fashioned hot chocolate

Pickled nopalitos

Corn cob jelly

Self-reliance

Cleaning a well

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

What to do when there’s no doctor

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Cold weather shooting considerations

Building the coyote rifle

Choose your ammo… police style

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...