Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Farm and Garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him,...

Propagating Plants

Build Your Own Hoop House

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

The Homestead Greenhouse

Americana and History

Fly it proudly and properly

By Roger Meyer Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, more Americans are displaying the national flag. Our flag gives us a sense of...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Orange Chiffon Cake

Uncooked Peanut-butter Candy

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Cheddar Breakfast Pizza

Self-reliance

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Preparing for civil unrest

Essential oils

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Hydronic woodstoves

Grid-down battery devices

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Affordable firearms

Air power superiority

Big boomer guns

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...