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Keeping homestead animals healthy

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up....

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

The 7 core areas of preparedness

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

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

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

A brief history of health and medicine

Looking back on 20 years of BHM

Common sense about burglary prevention

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Raising cattle on your own place

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Cash in on your household junk

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold weather hits. Visions of blowing and drifting snow swirl in...

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply is a primary objective. To that end, some consideration will...