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Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising your own beef for your family

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

New invention— The Fencerunner

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The greatest American who was never President

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

The light at the end of the gun

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

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...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Lessons for My Children Chapter 1

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

Reflecting on a life in the woods, and looking ahead

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the mountains in the Cascade foothills. Slugs are underfoot nearly year-round...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to electric fences as the cost of standard metal and wood...