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Keeping homestead animals healthy

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Constitution of the united States of America

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

By O.E. MacDougal January/February 2015, Backwoods Home Fish were the very first vertebrates. That is, they were the first animals with backbones, the purpose of which...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Introducing the international tax cartel

A government with not enough to do, but lots of hungry mouths to feed

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...

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Raising cattle on your own place

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Buying the right emergency radio

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only in fooling those pesky pests who thrive on fruits and...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can escape to the country and become a...