Articles - Backwoods Home Magazine

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Raising Rabbits

Slaughtering and Butchering

Beekeeping basics

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...

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

Small engine maintenance for women

A river rock shower

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Farm and Garden

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Blueberry Cash Crop

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Constitution of the united States of America

Remembering what grandma used

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned hot dog pepper relish

Pheasant and dumplings

Wheat

Bean-beef casserole

Self-reliance

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Defeating debt

Making maple syrup

Homestead helpers

Energy

Homemade electric power

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Emergency solar power for $950

Portable solar power

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 time for modern; the time for traditional

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...