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Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Build a poultry killing cone

The homestead cat

Get to know your spiders

Building

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...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Build a portable woodstove for $30

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Naughty Peppers

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Grandpa’s justice

The summer of ’35

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Food and recipes

Pickled fish and rollmops

Fresh cucumber delight

Jambalaya stew

Fermented dill pickles

Self-reliance

Homestead security for women

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Energy

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

Power your bug-out bag

Solar power trailer Part 1

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

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...