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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Good-bye old friend

Building

A river rock shower

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 The finished shower weighs a ton and cost about $800. Cultured stones, made of pumice and portland cement, weigh about...

Rural Building

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Farm and Garden

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Three Raised Bed Designs

Slug Zapper

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Remembering what grandma used

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Tricia’s chicken chili

Cajun-baked turnip

Wonderful wilderness wines

Can she bake an apple pie, Billy Boy?

Self-reliance

Fire resistant property

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Your survival depends on water

Storing dry foods

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

How to select the right backup generator

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The light at the end of the gun

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Canning game meat

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...