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Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

The greatest American who was never President

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Animals

Beekeeping basics

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Raising your own beef

Building

Build Your Own Car Wash

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 Completed car wash in operation If someone told me a year ago that I would have a...

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

How to build a good fence for your homestead

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Solar-powered chicken coop

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Food and recipes

Making Yogurt

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Mac’s lamb curry bake

Potato Bread

Politics and Commentary

Lessons for My Children…Chapter 3: Hiding from the government

Looking back on 20 years of BHM

Concealed carry laws reduce crime

Activists on both the left and the right spotlight a broken federal government

Farm and Garden

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

By Jackie Clay Issue #56 In the past I've grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this,...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a Composter

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Picking a holster

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Women and guns

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...