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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Home Dairying

Get to know your spiders

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Rural Building

Building a $3,000 Barn

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

New invention— The Fencerunner

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Build a Keyhole Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Fermented dill pickles

Pickled chili peppers

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

Terrific tamale pie

Self-reliance

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Wash day

7 Mistakes of food storage

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

An $89 backup generator

Power your bug-out bag

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Catch your own bait

Affordable firearms

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

Science and truth. Are they related?

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Politics and Commentary

The rationale of the automatic rifle

Should both drugs and guns be legal?

The land of the unfree

Why bureaucracy will likely destroy America

Animals

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Raising rabbits for profit

The homestead cat

Slaughtering and Butchering

Is that a good pig?

Self-Reliance

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Earning money from home

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Farm and Garden

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,...

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Growing Microgreens

By Lisa Nourse Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic produce during the winter months is difficult. I find myself...

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