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Switch your family to goat’s milk

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

The Forever Floor

By David Lee Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 It is pretty devious starting off an article with an exaggeration but now that I have your attention...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Constitution of the united States of America

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

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...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Science and truth. Are they related?

The logic behind term limits and a historical perspective

Three honest words: “I don’t know”

Confessions of a former liberal

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

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 curled up next to the woodstove with a mug of...

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,...