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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising your own beef

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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...

Choosing a chain saw

Five building tricks for super strong framing

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Renovating old walls

Farm and Garden

Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Victory Gardens

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Naughty Peppers

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Sweet Ginger Eggs

Growing and Using Cilantro

Fig preserves

Apple ham salad

Self-reliance

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Homestead helpers

Energy

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Thoughts on ammunition

Big boomer guns

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

Zombie Apocalypse

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

How big is the solar system?

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Politics and Commentary

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces

Self-reliance equals freedom

Helping crackpots kill kids

Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

By Gene Sheley Issue #50 • March/April, 1998 Near the top of North America's wildlife food chain is the mountain lion, a close second to bears...

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Home Dairying

Self-Reliance

Bugging out in place

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

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 you wish to make it. One of the easiest ways...

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Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet. These beneficial bacteria promote good digestive health, strengthen the immune...

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