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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Home Dairying

Raising Rabbits

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Installing a steel roof

Farm and Garden

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh...

Growing Microgreens

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Broiled fish fillet with piri piri sauce

Lemons: the versatile fruit

Emergency casserole

Introduction to water bath canning

Self-reliance

Making maple syrup

Space heater safety tips

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Paring down for off-grid living

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Job site solar power

Waterpower for personal use

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...