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Animals

Animal disease traceability

Get to know your spiders

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Keeping fresh water in front of our livestock in the winter has always been somewhat of a problem....

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Renovating old walls

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy...

Build a Keyhole Garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

7 Mistakes of food storage

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Persimmon bread

Fiery Frittata

Self-reliance

Turn your passion into a business

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Call me plumber

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Energy

Portable solar power

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Cold weather shooting considerations

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...