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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Raising your own beef

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build a chicken tractor

By Connie Rabun Issue #127 • January/February, 2011 In the beginning we had chickens...and no coop! Any homesteader knows that the number one rule is to...

Build a stone wall

Build your own log home in the woods

Rural Building

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Farm and Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Garden Spaces for Small Places

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

The time-travel ad

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Blunt family chili

Kugel

Baked chili relleno casserole

Self-reliance

Defeating debt

Homestead helpers

Your survival depends on water

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

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...

Tailoring guns to females

Thoughts on ammunition

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Affordable firearms

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...