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Raising your own beef for your family

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Install rafters alone the easy way

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

The art of living in small spaces

Buying the right emergency radio

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

A brief history of health and medicine

Science and truth. Are they related?

How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it

If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

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

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth, "gleaning" refers to poor people being allowed to follow a...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our root cellar where they will keep for up to six...