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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Solar Building Design

By Steven Heckeroth Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Solar building design has been used since ancient times. In the more recent past, it has been more...

Renovating old walls

Build a chicken house in a day

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build a Groundhog Snare

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

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

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Grandpa’s justice

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Easy raspberry jam

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Food security 101: Part 1

Honey Crunch Baked Apples

Self-reliance

Cold process goat milk soap

This country job really rocks

Drive your own freshwater well

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Solar-powered chicken coop

Is steam power in your future?

Prepper power! Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Choose your ammo… police style

The time for modern; the time for traditional

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Theories of the universe

The coming ice age

Science and truth. Are they related?

Politics and Commentary

How environmental ideology hurts the solar energy industry

Running your own business: a mother’s perspective

Money can buy happiness

Home handgun defense — Simplicity suffices