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Goat birthing and raising kids

Raising cattle on your own place

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

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

Build a Keyhole Garden

By Katelynn Bond Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 One of the hazards of living on the side of a mountain in northern New Mexico is that...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Lessons learned from an ice storm

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

Looking back on 20 years of BHM

The state of freedom in America

Climate Change Theory: science or religion?

That old survivalist mumbo jumbo and 10 reasons why it makes sense

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

10 tips for selling your homemade product

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers and cucumbers thrown in. But a whole lot of folks,...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....