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Animals

Redworm farming

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build a wood crib with free materials

By Mark R. Roach Issue #156 • November/December, 2015 Trying to stack wood so it stays up without falling can be a challenge. Just when you...

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Farm and Garden

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Three Raised Bed Designs

The Potato Hole

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

The vanishing outhouse

The greatest American who was never President

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

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Dilled oyster crackers

Elegant desserts for entertaining

Six Chile Chicken

Self-reliance

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Defeating debt

10 ways to make money on your land

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Solar Food Drying

Portable solar power

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Thoughts on ammunition

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Building the coyote rifle

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...