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Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

The house that Dorothy built

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 This isn't the first time we've had an article by and about...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

A house a tornado helped build

Naughty Peppers

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Making and using a solar cooker

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Choose your ammo… police style

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

The chances of global disaster

My view: Socialism’s promises always end in disaster

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There are so many different varieties that no matter where you...

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 for hundreds of years grown potatoes above ground in straw...