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Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Build a Trail

By Claire Wolfe Standing near the top of the trail, looking down. The bright sunny spot in the middle distance will...

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Homeschooling through high school

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Choose your ammo… police style

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

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...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

A history lesson from Ayn Rand

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XI — The Tenth Amendement Movement

Animal rights loonies save the chickens but ruin the County Fair

Dr. Laura tells her listeners she’s decided to pack a gun

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

By Gene Sheley Issue #50 • March/April, 1998 Near the top of North America's wildlife food chain is the mountain lion, a close second to bears...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None of those flimsy, store bought cotton things for us. Our...

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise a good portion of their own food. But how many...