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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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

Bottle-raise a calf

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

A cabin for one

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Tea for the garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

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

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Old-fashioned baked beans

Peanut Soup

Blonde brownies

Texas Fireballs By Randy Young

Self-reliance

Better wood heating

The fire wick fire starter

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

Breastfeeding — A primer

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Battery powered weekend retreat

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...