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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Get to know your spiders

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

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

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Constitution of the united States of America

The greatest American who was never President

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

Whole grain breads baked at home

Baby bok choy with tofu

Old-fashioned hot chocolate

Self-reliance

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

The Trigger Line

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Hydronic woodstoves

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

How big a gun do you need?

Affordable firearms

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...