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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Building

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

By Dana Martin Batory Issue #84 • November/December, 2003 Sometimes it seems two hands are not enough—three would be nice, four even better. This economical, easy...

Build your own portable forge

Build a Composter

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Build a Groundhog Snare

Farm and Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet....

Propagating Plants

Mid-season planting

The Homestead Greenhouse

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

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

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Old World apple chutney

Indian Pudding

Española eggs

You can become a hardcore forager

Self-reliance

The many benefits of garlic

Shopping to beat inflation

The community treasure chest

Storm survivors

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Battery powered weekend retreat

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...