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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Bottle-raise a calf

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

By Robert Van Putten Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a rustic log cabin deep in the...

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Building Eric’s house

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Companion Planting

How to Grow Garlic

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

The vanishing outhouse

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The barnyard scramble

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

Dublin Coddle

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Ham and sausage jambalaya

Self-reliance

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Grid-down battery devices

Solar Building Design

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Use the right ammunition!

Reload your own brass

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...